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Alas Poor Country; Almost Afraid To Know Itself

Noel Malcolm THE RISE AND FALL OF NICO- LAE AND ELENA CEAUSESCU by Mark Almond Chapmans, f18, pp. 320 A , happy families are alike, Tolstoy tells us, but an unhappy family is......

The Tragic Hero Of His Own Life

Clive Sinclair STRINDBERG'S LETTERS: Volume I, 1862-1892 Volume II, 1892-1912 edited and translated by Michael Robinson The Athlone Press, £80, pp. 952 I should declare at the......