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To Fame By Leaps And Bounds

Keith Baxter DANCER by Colum McCann Weidenfeld, £12.99, pp. 291, ISBN 1897580290 H ere is an astonishing book. It is a biography of Rudolph Nureyev written as a piece of......

The Third Man

John Jolliffe DOUGLAS JERROLD, 1803-1857 by Michael Slater Duckworth, £25, pp. 340, ISBN 0715628240 I n the 1840s and 50s, Douglas Jerrold, Dickens and Thackeray were the three......