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Apocalyptics And Revolutionaries

The Russian Idea. %%Nicolas Berdyaev. (Geoffrey Bles. 18s.) TURGENEV recalls that in the midst of one of those night-long con. troversies between the Slavophils and Westernisers......

The Making Of Madame Bovary

THIS book is an attempt to describe an individual act of creation, discovering its genesis in the few years which preceded it and in the explicit development of the artist......