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Old Novels In Modern Rome

Roger Gard A cademic 'theorists' — but also gen- uine literary critics — are chronically unde- cided about the importance of real things to imaginative literature. Histories?......

The End Of Something Nice

John McEwen FIN DE SIECLE: THE ILLUSTRATORS OF THE NINETIES by Simon Houfe Barrie & Jenkins, f.35, pp.200 T his book is a trap-door into a past when picture books and......