The Man Who Was Saturday. Derek Lambert
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The Man Who Was Saturday
DEREK LAMBERT
(with apologies to the memory of G.K. Chesterton whose man was Thursday)
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First published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton Ltd 1985
Copyright © Derek Lambert 1985
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Source ISBN: 9780008268480
Ebook Edition © November 2017 ISBN: 9780008268473
Version: 2017-11-09
To Roger and Lise.
‘… for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and evil events that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it …’
Benjamin Franklin
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