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More Than A Pinch Of Salt

William Scammell ROBERT LOWELL: COLLECTED PROSE edited and introduced by Robert Giroux Faber, £17.50 I t was the best of times, it was the worst of times. . . . What an age of......

The Gold Rush Of Modern Times

Byron Rogers CHARLES by Penny Junor Sidgwick & Jackson, E12.95 I t was not much fun in the beginning When, between the seed-time and the harvest, there were armies which you had......