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Books

First Great American Novel James Buchan SALEM IS MY DWELLING PLACE by Edwin Havilland Miller Duckworth, f25, pp. 596 H awthorne's use of symbols distressed Henry James. The......

The Price Of Fame, Paid By Others

Patrick Skene Catling LESS THAN A TREASON: HEMINGWAY IN PARIS by Peter Griffin OUP, £14.95, pp. 197 A e there any happy novelists out there? — happy, virtuous novelists? The......