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Books

The woman in white Hilary Spurling The Life of Emily Dickinson Richard B. Sewell (Faber, Two volumes, £17.50) The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson edited by T. H. Johnson......

Slipping Out

William Trevor A New Life of Chekhov Ronald Hingley (Oxford University Press £8.75) The old cliché that everyone has a story to tell is true, and more often than not it's a......