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They Are Made A Spectacle Unto The World

Michael Beloff T HE F IRST L ONDON O LYMPICS : 1908 by Rebecca Jenkins Piatkus Books, £16.99, pp. 288, ISBN 9780749951689 V £13.19 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 T HE M ARATHON......

The Death Of The Novel

C harles II apologised for being ‘an unconscionable time a-dying’, and, if it could speak, the novel might do the same. Its death has been so often decreed. More than sixty......