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| | Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Review: The Letters of Lytton Strachey edited by Paul Levy |
 | | If Lytton Strachey had been born in 1980 instead of 1880, he would have been constantly on his mobile phone: "I'm on the train." As it was, he wrote paragraphs of his long letters on trains, en route for Cambridge or, later, to stay with Lady Ottoline Morrell, with Lady Cunard, with the Asquiths. |
 | | He belonged to the semi-secret society known as the Apostles, where he fell under the spell of GE Moore (about whom Levy has written a good book), a shy, charismatic philosophy don, who persuaded his acolytes that the important things in life were telling the truth, personal relationships, and the contemplation of beauty. |
 | | As Paul Levy says, his sex-life may startle even those who think of themselves as unshockable. |
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