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Christopher And His Kind

Philip Hensher ISHERWOOD by Peter Parker Picador, £25, pp. 914, ISBN 0330486993 J t's not often that one can recommend a biography of a writer as long as this, particularly......

The Persistence Of Magic

Colin Wilson THE PLACE OF ENCHANTMENT: BRITISH OCCULTISM AND THE CULTURE OF THE MODERN by Alex Owen University of Chicago Press, £21, pp. 355, ISBN 0226642011 w .B. Yeats became......