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Vol. 1 No. 5 · 20 December 1979
Simon Schama
The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the ‘Encyclopédie’ 1775-1800 by Robert Darnton. Harvard, 624 pp., £13, September 1979, 0 674 08786 0
Letters
Liane Aukin, Gay Clifford, Brigid Brophy, Ken Follett, John Sutherland, John Sturrock, Wynne Godley, Tom Gallagher, T.G. Rosenthal
Alasdair MacIntyre
Western Political Thought in the Face of the Future by John Dunn. Cambridge, 120 pp., £8.50
Roger Poole
The Moment of ‘Scrutiny’ by Francis Mulhern. New Left Books, 354 pp., £11.75The Literary Criticism of F.R. Leavis by R.P. Bilan. Cambridge, 338 pp., £12.50
Alan Bennett
An Actor and his Time by John Gielgud. Sidgwick, 253 pp., £8.95
Peter Jenkins
Final Term: The Labour Government 1974-76 by Harold Wilson. Weidenfeld/Joseph, 322 pp., £8.95
Christopher Serpell
The White House Years by Henry Kissinger. Weidenfeld/Joseph, 1476 pp., £14.95
Richard Poirier
The Powers that Be by David Halberstam. Chatto, 771 pp., £9.95
Peter Medawar
Howard Florey: The Making of a Great Scientist by Gwyn Macfarlane. Oxford, 396 pp., £7.95
Gabriel Josipovici
Cervantes by William Byron. Cassell, 583 pp., £9.95
Robert Taubman
Shikasta by Doris Lessing. Cape, 365 pp., £5.95Fergus Lamont by Robin Jenkins. Canongate, 293 pp., £7.95A Married Man by Piers Paul Read. Alison Press/Secker, 264 pp., £5.25And Again? by Sean O’Faolain. Constable, 267 pp., £5.95
Ralf Dahrendorf
Class by Jilly Cooper. Eyre Methuen, 283 pp., £4.95
Charles Tomlinson
Poem: ‘Their voices rang’
Clive James
Poems and Journeys by Charles Johnston. Bodley Head, 97 pp., £3.90Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Charles Johnston. Penguin Classics, 238 pp., £1.50
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