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Bucking The Odds

David Spanier IN NEVADA by David Thomson Little, Brown, £20, pp. 330 evada is on the edge, on the wire, off to one side of America. Yet its influence on the whole country has......

Two Epicurean Stoics

George Melly BILL AND PATIENCE: AN ECCENTRIC MARRIAGE AT STOWE AND BEYOND by Harriet Hall The Book Guild, f16.95, pp. 305 T he McElwees, mother and father of the author of this,......