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Notes From An Original Mind

Paul Theroux THE HUMAN PROVINCE by Elias Canetti Deutsch, £9.95 T he oddest aspect of Elias Canetti's winning the Nobel Prize in 1980 was not the fact that he had written only......

Slob, Welshman And Great Poet

Jan Morris DYLAN THOMAS: THE COLLECTED LETTERS edited by Paul Ferris Dent, £20 T hree things, in particular, Dylan Tho- mas was: a slob, a Welshman, and a great poet. How they......