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Cast A Cold" Eye, On Life, On Death

Frances Spalding BITTER FAME: A LIFE OF SYLVIA PLATH by Anne Stevenson Viking, f15.95, pp. 413 N ot many novelists, sitting down to write a 'pot boiler' as Sylvia Plath did with......

A Throne He Never Sought

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