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Failures And Missions
BOTH these volumes are records of English disasters during the Hundred Years War, one of them a defeat for her arms in the Spanish Peninsula, the other for her diplomacy at......
New Novels
THE INHERITORS. By William Golding. (Faber, 12s. 6d.) WHEN a first novel shows extraordinary originality, it appears— and, of course, it is—unrepeatable. People wonder what on......
The Making Of A Poem
THE FIRE AND THE FOUNTAIN. By John Press. (0.U.P., 25s.) THIS is a book which, though it never uncovers anything very new or says anything very startling, manages to assemble a......
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