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Caprine Messiah

ANTHONY BURGESS Giles Goat - Boy by John Barth (Seeker and Warburg 42s) That this is a book there can be no doubt (ah, how delightful it must have been to be Arnold Bennett,......

Doubting Sir Thomas Books

MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH Le Morte Darthur has been prized as the English classic of chivalry ever since Caxton published it in 1485. A better text than Cax- ton's, though like his......