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James Wood: The ‘TLS’, 27 June 2002
Critical Times: The History of the ‘Times Literary Supplement’
by Derwent May.
HarperCollins, 606 pp., £25, November 2001,0 00 711449 4 Show More
by Derwent May.
HarperCollins, 606 pp., £25, November 2001,
“... In that first year of the TLS’s existence, The Wings of the Dove was reviewed by Constance Fletcher, who wondered how James’s novel would do ‘for short railway journeys and drowsy hammocks’, and Youth (which contained Heart of Darkness), reviewed by William Beach Thomas, who had robustly little time for Conrad’s dense pessimism. Two years ... ”