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Rumours Of Life Greatly Exaggerated

Philip Ziegler T HE Q UEST FOR THE A RK OF THE C OVENANT by Stuart Munro-Hay I.B. Tauris, £19.50, pp. 276, ISBN X1850436681 ✆ £17.50 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 C ertain......

Master Surveyor Of Many Territories

Peter Porter T HE P OWER OF D ELIGHT : A L IFETIME IN L ITERATURE : E SSAYS 1962-2002 by John Bayley, selected by Leo Carey Duckworth, £25, pp. 677, ISBN 0715633120 ✆ £23 (plus......

The Princess

‘Princess of death! Princess of ice!’ — Turandot, Act III It was to be his last supreme success. Gozzi’s barbaric fairy-tale supplied The elements on which his art relied: A......