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Firing The Youthful Imagination

Nicolas Barker B RITISH C HILDREN ’ S F ICTION IN THE S ECOND W ORLD W AR by Owen Dudley Edwards Edinburgh University Press, £150, pp. 744, ISBN 9780748616510 I must first......

Open To The World?

O ne may make a distinction between two types of novel: the self-enclosed and the open. The distinction is not absolute. Such things never are. Genre fiction may merge with what......