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Adam's Image

Free Fall. By William Golding. (Faber, 15s.) MR. GOI.DING will never do anything easy. In his first three novels there are skeletal parables, but with each book the telling......

Spanish And English Armadas

The Defeat of the Spanish Armada. By Garrett Mattingly. (Jonathan Cape, 25s.) THE defeat of the Spanish Armada is central to English historical mythology. Elizabethan propa-......