13 NOVEMBER 1964, page 24

Grand Master

The Defence is one of Nabokov's early novels. It was originally written, in Russian, during his emigre years in France and Germany,. and was first published in book form in......

Getting On

Late Call. By Angus Wilson. (Secker and War' burg, 25s.) THE predicament of the late-middle-aged in the mid-twentieth century is the chosen territory o t all Angus Wilson's......