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Bede And The Age

of conversion DAVID KNOWLES The World of Bede Peter Hunter Blair (Seeker and Warburg 80s) Bede the Venerable has several titles to fame. He is the first writer (if not the fire......

Dickens And The Great Tradition

JOHN CASEY Dickens the Novelist F. R. Leavis and Q. D. Leavis (Chatto and Windus 50s) The authors ferociously dismiss those critics who 'tell us with the familiar, easy......