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Right

Flowers are right at marriages and funerals. They speak as tongues cannot as, round the altar, clumped in graveyards, we take root. Their colours flare, unauthored and......

Who Despised Whom

David Wright THOMAS HARDY: HIS LIFE AND FRIENDS by F.B. Pinion Macmillan, £45, pp. 438 T he best life of Thomas Hardy — if one excludes that purportedly written by his widow but......

Books

Reducing all that's done Raymond Carr THE MEDITERRANEAN by Fernand Braude!, edited by Richard 011ard HarperCollins, £25, pp. 664 0 nce upon a time Fernand Braudel seemed a......