Her Final, Desperate Flight To France Was Due Directly To
her venal son-in-law running up astronomical debts in her name and, indirectly, to her own impulsive generosity to her family. She died two days before an equally debt-ridden......
Can Fail As An Achievement If It Be Vivid Without
being illuminating. Does the narra- tor — and does the reader — mature and extend his understanding of the Russian world as a result of this record of heat and meetings and......
That It Is Written From Such An Angle Is What
makes the book passionate and per - sonal, a report from the front line, with the excitable young narrator bunging down everything that happens, in the present tense for maximum......
As The Weeks Go By And The Characters In The
book appear to learn nothing from each other, you become less sympathetic towards their complaints. Of course Dima, and all the other Russians who appear in the book, retain the......
National Theatre, Where The King And Queen And Their...
(the Drones of the Nation according to Cobbett) mingled with the masses. It was unquestionably a golden age in the English theatre and now Dora was at the very heart of it. She......
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