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He particularly enjoyed a morality tale about two sisters – one beautiful but "vain and severe", who lost a suitor to her plain, but more agreeable, sibling.

Mosley’s introduction provides that frame, calling the combined tales “a twentieth century memoir” and linking them to the fight for liberation and equality.

But the real protagonist of this entire tale is Guehi, who played by the rules when other players did not this summer but missed out on his move to the Premier League champions.

Elordi takes over the telling of his tale, often running counter to the presentational grandiosity that a new “Frankenstein” would seem to require.

They recalled tales of labor abuse and on-the-job injuries, including permanent blindness.