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Sentimental education for travel junkies Benji Wilson hangs out with E M Forster cast-offs and India bores; The Romantics By Pankaj Mishra Picador pounds 14.99

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20000130
Author:Benji Wilson

To all but the insane, the illiterate or the wilfully obtuse, it is readily apparent why David Copperfield is called David Copperfield. So too The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: it works well as a title because it gives you a fair idea in the first five words of what to expect in the next 50,000.

But there is more to ponder with The Romantics, the debut novel from the editor of HarperCollins (India) who "discovered" Arundhati Roy. It is subtitled "A Novel", presumably in case we thought it was a further addition to the tottering raft of19th-century lit crit. That helps. But who are these ...

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