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Poverty And Rain

Mark Amory Jean Rhys: Letters 1931-36 Edited by Francis Wyndham and Diana . Melly (Andre Deutsch £10.95) T etters are arbitrary. Crucial events may A be left out because the......

Shepherds Into Gods

Peter Ackroyd The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds Edited and introduced by Phyllis Grosskurth (Hutchinson £14.95) thought that, if I lived to do nothing else, I should write......