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Old And New Prose From An Old Pro

Francis King MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and MYRON EMPIRE ARMAGEDDON?: ESSAYS 1983-87 by Gore Vidal Deutsch, £12.95, £11.95 and £11.95 I n an introduction to his revised versions of Myra......

Difficult, But With A Touch Of Genius

Mary Keen A WOMAN OF PASSION by Julia Briggs Hutchinson, £16.95 J ulia Briggs is an English don at Oxford. It is doubtful whether she wrote the blurb which accompanies her......