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Defeated By Modernity

Colin Wilson ARTHUR MACHEN by Mark Valentine Seren, 2 Wyndham Street, Bridgend, CF 31 lEF, tel: 01656 767834, £12.95, £6.95, pp. 154 W hen Arthur Machen died in 1947, he was......

Rhyme But No Reason

D. J. Taylor PLAYING THE GAME by Doris Lessing, and Charlie Adlard HarperCollins, £6,99 A graphic novel by Doris Lessing stands rather high on my list of improbable books — a......