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Easy Rider

Benny Green H. Rider Haggard Peter Berresford Ellis (Routledge £7.95) It would be interesting to locate the last occasion when any man of acknowledged literary sensibility took......

Possessions

Francis King The Bachelor of Arts; The Dark Room; The English Teacher R. K. Narayan (Heinemann £4.95, £4.50 and £4.50) In an essay in his Indian Writing in English K. R.......