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Too Much In Arcadia

Blair Worden E ARLS OF P ARADISE by Adam Nicolson Harper Press, £25, pp. 298, ISBN 9780007240524 ✆ £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 T he century or so before the Civil War,......

Vagabonds In Paris

Anita Brookner D ANS LE C AFÉ DE LA J EUNNESSE PERDUE by Patrick Modiano Gallimard, E14.50, pp. 149, ISBN 9782070786060 P atrick Modiano is a nostalgic novelist who has......