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Sound Of Music

Duncan Fallowell Wagner and the Romantic Disaster Burnett James (Midas Books £12.50) W agner's bibliography is enormous, said to be the largest after God's and Hitler's —......

Parthenogenic

A.N. Wilson Kate's House Harriet Waugh (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £7.95) H arriet Waugh's previous novels have .1 I been sharp comedies in appalling taste. They produced a......