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Learning The Hard Way

Ian Thomson I'LL TAKE YOU THERE by Joyce Carol Oates Fourth Estate, £10.99, pp. 290, ISBN 0007146442 J oyce Carol Oates is a prolific, even prolix writer, with more than 50......

Classics In The Classroom

David Nokes TEACHING LITERATURE by Elaine Showalter Blackwell, 145, pp. 176, ISBN 1631226230 T here comes a time when all professors of literature think of writing a book like......