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Autumn Books

Alarums and the man Bevis Hillier BERNARD SHAW: VOLUME II 1898-1918 THE PURSUIT OF POWER by Michael Holroyd Chatto &Windus, £18, pp.422 0 ne of the few aspects of Shaw's life......

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I go with the grain of foreign courtesies By writing, to somebody met only twice, I remain, your impassioned eternal lover Or My soul is yours each minute of night and day.......