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A Minor, Difficult Masterpiece

Andrew Clifford THE MARKET BELL by T.F. Powys The bynmill Press, £14.95, pp. 322 R eading a dead author's unpublished novel offers an experience akin to that one sometimes has......

First Novels, Modern Rather Than New

Celestria Noel NEWS FROM A FOREIGN COUNTRY CAME by Alberto Manguel Harper Collins, £13.99, pp. 435 A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Michael Cunningham Hamish Hamilton, £13.99,......

Correction In Stephen Spender's Review Last Week, It Was Not

clear from the layout of the quo- tation that Robert Fagles's translation of the Iliad was in verse. We apologise to the author and the reviewer.......