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A Book In My Life

Peter Quennell k art from George Sand's marvellously haunted Nohant, few literary sites Make so strong an appeal to the imagina- tion as Henry James's house at Rye, for which he......

Piscatorial

J. G. Links A Venetian Bestiary Jan Morris (Thames & Hudson £8.95) T he theme of this 'epilogue' to Jan Morris's 35 years of writing about Venice is the special affinity of the......