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The Bookless Club: If you could live in an earlier era, which would it be?

Yesteryear is always beguiling. The hats. The clothes. The manners. Rightly or wrongly, the past is endowed with a lovely patina of gentility.

Time travel is tricky.

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Tickets are difficult to arrange and, legend has it, the return trip is uncertain. Nevertheless, the journey is generally viewed as a risk worth taking. At least that’s according to books and movies.

Yesteryear is always beguiling. The hats. The clothes. The manners. Rightly or wrongly, the past is endowed with a lovely patina of gentility. Along with those more codified civilities, an element of intrigue seems to hover. A man in a fedora is always going to be more interesting than a man in a........

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