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Anatomy Of Despair

Barbara Hardy The Savage God: Study of Suicide A. Alvarez (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £3.25) I once gave a talk on Sylvia Plath after which someone asked me if I was a voyeur. An......

Part-work History

Norman Stone Death of a Generation Alistair Horne (£1.05); Suicide of the Empires Alan Clark (£1.50); Twilight of the Habsburgs Z. A. B. Zeman (Macdonald and BPC Library of the......