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From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20050313
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Byline: KATHRYN HUGHES

During the early weeks of 1930, a middle-aged Englishman lay spluttering and wheezing in a French sanatorium.

Weighing 6st 7lb (and some of that must have been down to his huge beard), there was nothing to suggest that the frail figure was considered a menace to the Western world.

He wasn't a Communist or even a scientist tinkering with atoms. He was, however, the author of what was said to be the dirtiest book ever to be published in the history of literature. Only a few months earlier, Lady Chatterley's Lover had begun to make David Herbert ...

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