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- “Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?”Tom Robbins
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Books by Iain Pears
An Instance of the Fingerpost
1997
The Dream of Scipio
2002
Stone's fall
2009
Arcadia
2016
The Portrait
2004