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A Misfit In Every Aspect Of His Life

Teresa Waugh TURGENEV by Henri Troyat, translated by Nancy Amphoux Allison & BusbylW. H. Allen, 114.95, pp.184 A nyone who is even vaguely familiar with the novels of Ivan......

Games

A rat with his head in a tin enjoys low tide. The river has exposed its flanks of mud and shingle: tusks of wood at the water's edge speak of mammoths or great amphibians but......

Books

Muddles of a brilliant mind Colin Welch THE MIRROR MAKER by Primo Levi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal Methuen, £12.99, pp.I77 P rimo Levi left behind him one great and perhaps......