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Hell And Its Afterlife

Ian Thomson D ANTE ’ S I NFERNO : A V ERSE T RANSLATION by Sean O’Brien Picador, £15, pp. 247, ISBN 0330441108 ✆ £12 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 I n 1882, while on a lecture......

Children’s Books For Christmas

Juliet Townsend D ecember, as far as children’s books are concerned, is the month of the hardback. For the rest of the year the young are fobbed off with soft covers, but the......