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Swan's Way

A. N. Wilson 'There is a city full, as are all cities, of halt and maimed, blind and evil and the rest; but it is the City of God. There are not two such Cities on earth. There......

The Avenger

Michal Levin Collected Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer (Cape £10.50) am the Primeval Snake, the Evil One, 11 Satan. The Cabala refers to me as Samalael and the Jews sometimes call......

Archetypal

Catherine Peters K athleen Raine's new book consists of 11 papers, all but one (an essay on the painter Charles Collins) given as lectures on various occasions during the past......