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A Thing Of Beauty Is A Boy Forever

John Mortimer DICKENS: A BIOGRAPHY by Fred Kaplan John Curtis/Hodder & Stoughton, £17.95, pp.607 h e story starts with Dickens as a young boy in Chatham, reading voraciously. He......

More Complex Than A Mass Of Contradictions

Robert Kee A DIVIDED LIFE: A BIOGRAPHY OF DONALD MACLEAN by Robert Cecil Bodley Head, £12.95, pp.212 D onald Maclean, quintessential like- able, intelligent English liberal......