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First Novels, Modern Rather Than New

Celestria Noel NEWS FROM A FOREIGN COUNTRY CAME by Alberto Manguel Harper Collins, £13.99, pp. 435 A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Michael Cunningham Hamish Hamilton, £13.99,......

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We children had the freedom of the house, Wandered from room to room, at home in each, And felt no hiding place was out of reach; Fiercely awake, and yet oblivious; Till each of......

Rhyme Is The Rock

Clive Wilmer STONE by Osip Mandelstam, translated by Robert Tracy Collins Harvill, £6.95, pp. 249 THE COLLECTED CRITICAL PROSE AND LETTERS by Osip Mandelstam, edited by Jane......