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Any Human Heart by William Boyd

Any Human Heart

The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart: A Novel

by William Boyd
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  • Feb 1, 2003, 496 pages
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  • Jan 2004, 512 pages
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In the dormitory that night I pleasured myself with delectable visions of Lucy. No. 127 of the term.

* As far as is known, the Livre d'Or was never printed. No trace of the manuscript survives.

Excerpted from Any Human Heart by William Boyd Copyright© 2003 by William Boyd. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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