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Books

Opium and oblivion Philip Hensher COLERIDGE: DARKER REFLECTIONS by Richard Holmes HarperCollins, £19.99, pp. 584 A t the end of Peter Weir's magnificent new film, The Truman......

What Dire Effects From Civil Discords Flow

Keith Cooper A HOUSE DIVIDED by Mary Allen Simon & Schuster, £16.99, pp. 304 F rustratingly, my review copy of Mary Allen's diaries had no index. Well, if you had worked with......