Alain de Botton's attack on a book reviewer is in a fine tradition of literary punch-ups. Novelist and critic Philip Hensher reviews some legendary insults and explains how he dishes up revenge
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THE PLEASURES AND SORROWS OF WORK
By Alain de Botton
Illustrated. Pantheon Books. 327 pp. $26
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