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Age And Youth Cannot Live Together

Andrei Navrozov BORIS PASTERNAK: A LITERARY BIOGRAPHY, VOLUME ONE by Christopher Barnes CUP, £35, pp. 528 P amela by Samuel Richardson, whose tercentenary is passing unnoticed......

Close, Brief Or Of A Third Kind

Patrick Skene Catling ENCOUNTERS edited by Kai Erikson Yale University Press, £14.95, pp.163 A fter all the superfluous details of so many unduly protracted biographies, it is......