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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Writings for the Spectator 1973-1987 | |
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| Book Reviews | |
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| Wyndham Lewis: Fictions and Satires R. T. Chapman Unlucky for Pringle: Unpublished and Other Stories Wyndham Lewis | |
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| English Literature and Irish Politics Matthew Arnold | |
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| Forewords and Afterwords W. H. Auden, selected by E. Mendelson | |
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| Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon | |
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| Chimera John Barth | |
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| Napoleon Symphony Anthony Burgess | |
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| Some Little English Versifiers (Douglas Dunn, Andrew Crozier and J. H. Prynne) | |
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| The Collected Poems, 1956-1974 Edward Dorn | |
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| The Decay of the Angel Yukio Mishima | |
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| Look at the Harlequins! Vladimir Nabokov | |
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| Tales of Power Carlos Castaneda | |
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| Verse, and Worse? (John James, John Fuller, J. H. Prynne and Andrew Crozier) | |
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| The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in the 1930s Samuel Hynes | |
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| Thought, Words and Creativity: Art and Thought in D. H. Lawrence F. R. Leavis | |
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| W. H. Auden: Collected Poems ed. Edward Mendelson | |
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| Ezra Pound: The Last Rower: A Political Profile C. David Heymann | |
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| Yeats Frank Tuohy | |
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| The Autumn of the Patriarch: Gabriel Garcia Marquez | |
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| The Castle of Crossed Destinies Italo Calvino | |
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| Gaudete Ted Hughes | |
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| A Victim of the Aurora Thomas Keneally | |
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| Sade, Fourier, Loyola Roland Barthes | |
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| Joyce's Voices Hugh Kenner | |
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| A Lover's Discourse: Fragments Roland Barthes | |
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| Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary Terry Jones | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Slow Death of Academic Literary Criticism | |
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| The Future of English Prisons | |
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| England's New Client State | |
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| California Dreaming. Los Angeles and San Francisco | |
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| Some Comments upon a Norwegian Joke. Oslo | |
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| Out of the Wilderness. Reykjavik | |
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| Glare but not Gloire. Paris | |
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| Christopher Isherwood at Eighty | |
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| Film Reviews | |
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| Apocalypse Now | |
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| 1941, Mirror | |
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| The Shining | |
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| Raiders of the Lost Ark | |
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| Mommie Dearest | |
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| The Draughtsman's Contract | |
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| The Wicked Lady | |
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| Octopussy | |
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| The Company of Wolves | |
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| A Private Function | |
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| Body Double | |
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| Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid of Fear | |
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| Caravaggio | |
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| When the Viewing had to Stop | |
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| Writings for the Sunday Times and The Times 1981-2001 | |
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| Sunday Times Book Reviews | |
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| If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino | |
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| The Outline of Sanity: A Biography of G. K. Chesterton Alzina Stone Dale | |
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| Under the Sign of Saturn Susan Sontag, The Benefactor Susan Sontag | |
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| The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Volume V: 1936-1941 ed. Anne Olivier Bell | |
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| The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Volume III: 1902-1908 and Volume IV: 1909-1913: ed. Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate | |
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| The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy. Volume I and Volume II: ed. Samuel Hynes | |
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| The Laughter of Carthage Michael Moorcock | |
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| The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: The Doom of Empire Martin Green | |
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| Auden in Love Dorothy J. Farnan | |
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| Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered William H. Pritchard | |
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| Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer Richard Holmes | |
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| More Letters of Oscar Wilde ed. Rupert Hart-Davis | |
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| Gertrude Bell Susan Goodman | |
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| Madame de Stael Renee Winegarten | |
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| Emily Dickinson Donna Dickenson | |
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| The Times TV Reviews | |
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| The Evolution of Darwin | |
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| The Invisible World | |
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| The Pantomime Dame | |
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| Claire Rayner's Casebook | |
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| Comic Roots (Kenneth Williams) | |
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| An Evening with Quentin Crisp | |
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| Meantime (Mike Leigh) | |
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| Earth Year 2050, Broadside | |
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| EastEnders | |
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| Ours to Keep, A Pocketful of Rye | |
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| Arena (Old Kent Road) | |
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| The Times Book Reviews | |
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| An Insular Possession Timothy Mo | |
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| The Faber Book of Political Verse ed. Tom Paulin | |
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| Writing Against: A Biography of Sartre Ronald Hayman | |
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| The Orton Diaries (Including the Correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and others) ed. John Lahr | |
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| The Royal Beasts and Other Works William Empson ed. John Haffenden | |
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| The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume IV Thomas Babington Macaulay | |
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| The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature ed. Pat Rogers | |
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| Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor Simon Callow | |
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| A Various Art ed. Andrew Crozier and Tim Longville | |
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| The Letters of T. S. Eliot. Volume One: 1898-1922 ed. Valerie Eliot | |
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| Flaubert: A Biography Herbert Lottman | |
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| Baudelaire: Claude Pichois | |
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| An Appetite for Poetry: Essays in Literary Appreciation Frank Kermode | |
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| Madness: The Price of Poetry Jeremy Reed | |
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| The State of the Language: ed. Christopher Ricks and Leonard Michaels | |
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| Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present Gary Taylor | |
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| A Dictionary of the English Language Samuel Johnson | |
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| A View from the Diners Club Gore Vidal | |
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| Fates Worse than Death: An autobiographical collage of the 1980s Kurt Vonnegut | |
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| The Complete Essays V. S. Pritchett | |
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| Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science Michael White and John Gribbin | |
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| Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State Tom Paulin | |
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| The Literary Companion to Sex ed. Fiona Pitt-Kethley | |
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| The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales ed. Chris Baldick | |
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| The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe Charles Nicholl | |
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| The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939 John Carey | |
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| The Maker of the Omnibus: The Lives of English Writers Compared Jack Hodges | |
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| Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life Andrew Motion | |
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| The Lives of Michel Foucault David Macey | |
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| The Passion of Michel Foucault James Miller | |
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| Modern Painters: Reflections on British Art Peter Fuller ed. John McDonald | |
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| A World Elsewhere: Bernard Levin | |
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| Lytton Strachey: The New Biography Michael Holroyd | |
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| An Intimate History of Humanity: Theodore Zeldin | |
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| The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages Harold Bloom | |
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| Cyril Connolly: A Nostalgic Life Clive Fisher | |
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| Auden Richard Davenport-Hines | |
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| Wystan and Chester: A Personal Memoir of W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman Thekla Clark | |
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| As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs...and other light verse W. H. Auden ed. Edward Mendelson | |
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| The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Critical Biography Rosemary Ashton | |
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| Bernard Shaw: The Ascent of the Superman Sally Peters | |
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| Eden Renewed: The Public and Private Life of John Milton Peter Levi | |
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| Lights Out for the Territory: 9 Excursions in the Secret History of London Iain Sinclair | |
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| The Origins of English Nonsense Noel Malcolm | |
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| Hogarth: A Life and a World Jenny Uglow | |
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| Hogarth and His Times: Serious Comedy David Bindman | |
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| Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer Michael White | |
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| The Genius of Shakespeare Jonathan Bate | |
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| Shakespeare's Sonnets ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones | |
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| Beginnings: Intention and Method Edward Said | |
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| Truman Capote: In which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquintances and Detractors Recall his Turbulent Career George Plimpton | |
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| Cole Porter: The Definitive Biography William McBrien | |
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| Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises and Sensibilities Lewis Pyenson and Susan Sheets-Pyenson | |
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| The Arcades Project Walter Benjamin | |
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| The Total Library: Non-Fiction, 1922-1986 Jorge Luis Borges ed. Eliot Weinberger | |
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| Hawksmoor's London Churches: Architecture and Theology Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey | |
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| England: The Making of the Myth Maureen Duffy | |
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| Lectures, Miscellaneous Writings, Short Stories | |
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| Lectures | |
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| The English Novel Now | |
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| The Englishness of English Literature | |
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| London Luminaries and Cockney Visionaries | |
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| William Blake, a Spiritual Radical | |
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| All the Time in the World (Writers and the Nature of Time) | |
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| Miscellaneous Writings | |
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| On Notes for a New Culture. Preface to the revised edition | |
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| On T. S. Eliot | |
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| On Hawksmoor | |
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| On First Light | |
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| On English Music. Preface to the Franklin Library Signed First Edition | |
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| A Manifesto for London | |
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| Frank Auerbach: Recent Works. Introduction | |
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| Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture ed. Nick Groom. Foreword | |
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| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Patrick Suskind. Review | |
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| Oscar Wilde. Essay | |
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| The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Volume Two: 1912-1918 ed. Andrew McNeillie. Review | |
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| Marcel Proust Edmund White | |
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| Crazy Horse Larry McMurtry. Review | |
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| Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls Denis Donoghue. Review | |
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| Short Stories | |
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| The Inheritance | |
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| A Christmas Story | |
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| The Plantation House | |
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| Index | |