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City of Laughter, by Vic Gatrell (Walker; $45). During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Georgian England suffered a mad king, the loss of its American colonies, and the growing influence of revolutionary radicalism drifting across the Channel from France. In spite of this, and even because of it, social and political satire, as Gatrell shows in his ...
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