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High-speed History

Eric Christiansen The Spoils of Time C. V. Wedgwood (Collins £15) rr here are several reasons for attempting 1 to write world history, none of them entirely respectable. Some......

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Mary Furness The Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume V: 1936-1941 Edited by Anne Oliver Bell assisted by Andrew McNeillie (The Hogarth Press £17.50) A Room of One's Own. Three......