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Through Glasses Darkly

Philip Glazebrook THE WORLD MORE OR LESS rench novelists, the serious ones, require more work of their readers than an English writer may expect of his. 'When,' exclaims the......

Letting It All Hang Out

Gabriele Annan THE YEAR OF READING PROUST by Phyllis Rose Vintage, f7.99, pp. 268 G ays favour pugs. Why? A man does not look foolish walking a pug, as he would walking a......