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Unimportant Man In The Library

Andrei Navrozov THE REVOLUTION OF 1905: RUSSIA IN DISARRAY by Abraham Ascher Stanford University Press, $39.50, pp.412 LENIN: THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK by Ronald W. Clark Faber,......

A Secret

bookish vice John Whitworth SELECTED POEMS by David Wright Carcanet, £4.95, pp. 96 T here are two Sixties Penguin antholo- gies of modern poetry on my shelf, the one edited by......