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Spoiled By His Good Companions

J. L. Carr J. B. PRIESTLEY by Vincent Brome Hamish Hamilton, £16.95, pp. 512 J ohn Priestley (he awarded himself the B for Boynton) lived most of his childhood and youth amongst......

Reconciling The Old With The New

Piers Paul Read THE BOOK OF GOD by Gabriel Josipovici Yale, f18.95, pp.350 F or some time I have been curious to know what some perceptive and agnostic critic would make of the......