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Books

The Lear of Vichy Allan Massie Main: Hero or Traitor? Herbert R.Lottman (Viking £16.95) DMain's story is the closest to Eli- I zabethan tragedy produced by the second world war.......

Drabble's Companion

Auberon Waugh The Oxford Companion to English Literature Fifth edition edited by Margaret Drabble (OUP £15) it Paul Harvey, introducing the first ■ ...3 edition of his brilliant......