Worst Of Times
David Benson A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century Barbara W. Tuchman (Macmillan £9.95) A university teacher of medieval literature I once knew claimed that her students......
The Praise Singer
'Miss Renault is the only writer of our time to have made an art of the historical novel . . . she manages to lift her readers out of their own world and into whatever world her......
Foreigner
A Novel by NAHID RACHLIN A haunting first novel about the experiences of estrangement. Feri, a woman in her thirties, returns from America for a visit to the house of her father......
The Best Of Aubrey Beardsley
KENNETH CLARK When Aubrey Beardsley died in 1898 at the age of twenty-six, he was better known for the shock his drawings had on the public than as one of the great illustrators......
Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art
JAMES HALL Introduction by KENNETH CLARK The enjoyment of a work of art often depends as much on the story it depicts, as on the artist's execution of it. But what were once......
Going Up To Sotheby's
Muriel Spark This was the wine. It stained the top of the page when she knocked over the glass accidentally. A pity, she said, to lose that drop. For the wine was a treat.......
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