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Autumn Books 1

All people great and small ELIZABETH BOWEN The chief aim of this book is to describe, as accurately as possible, the effect of war on civilian life in Britain'. So opens Angus......

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G. D. RAMSAY Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of the Counter-Reformation William J. Bouwsma (California UP 122s) For most of us, the......