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“... style. De Troy’s famous painting, The Reading from Molière illustrated on the dust-jacket of Katie Scott’s study of the rococo interior, seems to epitomise an ideal of polite but informal and mixed society which is still current. However, those who feel at ease with rococo furniture today do so because it is old and familiar. Originally it seemed ...”

“... The House of the Spirits. The third passage, by now highly self-conscious, is the beginning of Katie Hickman’s A Trip to the Light Fantastic. Niña turns out to be a boa, and despite appearances this is not a novel but a travel book, running after magic in the reality of Mexico. Hickman’s excuse for this reversal of literature and life is a perception ...”

“... Nation, Mew was summoned to a series of poetry readings given by the culturally avid Mrs Dawson Scott, who later founded International PEN. ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ treats the case of a man inflamed with desire for his young wife, a wild little fay who runs away from him and is recaptured and incarcerated in her own house. It is remarkable for giving ...”

“... Lutheran hymns; Karlstadt moves from top don in Wittenberg to disgraced eccentric in Basel, Katie makes enormous meals, Luther says truly horrible things about Jews. It’s difficult to tell the story to the end without it having a dying fall, since Luther’s last years were not happy, as he found that revolutions are really hard work, and suffered ...”