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Graham Robb

  • La Grand Thérèse or The Greatest Swindle of the Century by Hilary Spurling

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Graham Robb has written biographies of Balzac, Victor Hugo and Rimbaud. Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century was published in 2003.

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