Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
Essays and reviews, Clive James On Television (1991)
“We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.”
— Oscar Wilde, book De Profundis
De Profundis (1897)
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