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Pyrotechnic Flashes Of Intuition

Michael Levey LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE by W. H. Auden Faber, i30, pp. 400, ISBN 057120712X O pening this book is like opening a box of wonderfully varied, well-preserved......

Not So Plain Jane

Jonathan Keates JANE AUSTEN by Carol Shields Weidenfeld, £12.99, pp. 154, ISBN0297646192 U ntil recently, the popular image of Jane Austen's life was that of an untroubled......