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A Free Lance In Every Sense

David Pryce-Jones SELECTED LE 1 I ERS OF REBECCA WEST edited by Bonnie Kinn Scott Yale, £22.50, pp. 544 R ebecca West treated the English lan- guage as though it were some sort......

Finding Truth At Two Extremes

Francis Wyndham S omehow in the boom years the boom was always lowered on me,' said the Ameri- can writer Dawn Powell, looking back in irony on her career. She could easily out-......