Vol. 2 No. 3 · 21 February 1980

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Vol. 2 No. 3 · 21 February 1980

Roger Poole

Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age– A Literary Review by Søren Kierkegaard, edited and translated by Howard Hong and Edna Hong. Princeton, 187 pp., £7.70, August 1978, 0 691 07226 4
Kierkegaard: Letters and Documents translated by Henrik Rosenmeier. Princeton, 518 pp., £13.60, November 1978, 0 691 07228 0

Letters

August Wieddmann, Roger Poole, Michael Horovitz, Patrick Roberts, D. Kenwin Harris

Ted Hughes

Two Poems

Charles Hope

Ideals and Idols by E.H. Gombrich. Phaidon, 224 pp., £9.95, November 1980, 0 7148 2009 1

Richard Norman

Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence by G.A. Cohen. Oxford, 369 pp., £10.50, December 1978, 0 19 827196 4
Marxism After Marx: An Introduction by David McLellan. Macmillan, 355 pp., £8.95, December 1980, 0 333 72208 6

Norman Malcolm

Notebooks 1914-16 by Ludwig Wittgenstein, edited by G.H. von Wright and G.E.M. Anscombe, translated by G.E.M. Anscombe. Blackwell, 140 pp., £8.95, October 1980, 0 631 10291 4
Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle: Conversations Recorded by Friedrich Waismann edited by Brian McGuinness, translated by Joachim Schulte and Brian McGuinness. Blackwell, 266 pp., £9.95, August 1980, 0 631 19470 3
The Central Texts of Wittgenstein by Gerd Brand, translated by Robert Innis. Blackwell, 182 pp., £10, October 1980, 0 631 10921 8

Brigid Brophy

James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word by Colin MacCabe. Macmillan, 186 pp., £8.95, February 1979, 0 333 21648 2

Jane Miller

Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson. Virago, £3.50, November 1980, 0 86068 100 9

Mary-Kay Wilmers

Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography by Jean Rhys. Deutsch, 173 pp., £4.95, November 1980, 0 233 97213 7
Jean Rhys: A Critical Study by Thomas Staley. Macmillan, 140 pp., £10, November 1980, 0 333 24522 9
My Blue Notebooks by Liane de Pougy, translated by Diana Athill. Deutsch, 288 pp., £7.50, October 1980, 0 233 97141 6
The Maimie Papers edited by Ruth Rosen and Sue Davidson. Virago, 450 pp., £9.95, September 1980, 0 86068 114 9
Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough by Hugo Vickers. Weidenfeld, 299 pp., £8.95, September 1980, 0 297 77652 5

Gay Clifford

Gya/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism by Mary Daly. Women’s Press, 485 pp., £8.95, November 1980, 0 7043 2829 1
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the 19th Century by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Yale, 719 pp., £15.75, October 1980, 0 300 02286 7
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Margaret Dickie Uroff. Illinois, 235 pp., £6.95, November 1980, 0 252 00734 4
Women Writing and Writing about Women edited by Mary Jacobus. Croom Helm, 201 pp., £9.50, October 1980, 0 85664 745 4

Penelope Fitzgerald

Following the plot

Rosemary Dinnage

My Life by George Sand, translated and adapted by Dan Hofstadter. Gollancz, 246 pp., £7.95, September 1980, 0 575 02682 0
George Sand in her Own Words edited and translated by Joseph Barry. Quartet, 475 pp., £7.50, November 1980, 0 7043 2235 8

John Bayley

Moortown by Ted Hughes. Faber, 176 pp., £5.25, October 1980, 0 571 11453 9
Selected Poems 1955-1975 by Thom Gunn. Faber, 131 pp., £4.50, October 1980, 0 571 11512 8
Collected Poems 1942-1977 by W.S. Graham. Faber, 268 pp., £8.50, November 1980, 0 571 11416 4

D.J. Enright

Hackenfeller’s Ape by Brigid Brophy. Allison and Busby, 125 pp., £5.50, October 1980, 0 85031 314 7
Flesh by Brigid Brophy. Allison and Busby, 124 pp., £1.95, October 1980, 9780850313185
The Snow Ball by Brigid Brophy. Allison and Busby, 143 pp., £1.95, October 1980, 0 85031 316 3

Hans Keller

Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich edited by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina Bouis. Hamish Hamilton, 238 pp., £7.95, October 1980, 0 241 10321 5

Gillian Avery

The Children’s Book of Comic Verse edited by Christopher Logue. Batsford, 160 pp., £3.95, March 1980, 0 7134 1528 2
The Children’s Book of Funny Verse edited by Julia Watson. Faber, 127 pp., £3.95, September 1980, 0 571 11467 9
Bagthorpes v. the World by Helen Cresswell. Faber, 192 pp., £4.50, September 1980, 0 571 11446 6
The Robbers by Nina Bawden. Gollancz, 144 pp., £3.95, September 1980, 0 575 02695 2

Peter Campbell

Masquerade by Kit Williams. Cape, 32 pp., £3.50, September 1980, 0 224 01617 2
Beauty and the Beast by Rosemary Harris and Errol Le Cain. Faber, 32 pp., £3.50, October 1980, 0 571 11374 5
Mazel and Shlimazel by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Margot Zemach. Cape, 42 pp., £3.95, November 1980, 0 224 01758 6
La Corona by Russell Hoban and Nicola Bayley. Cape, 32 pp., £3.50, September 1980, 0 224 01397 1
Cats’Eyes by Anthony Taber. Gollancz, 80 pp., £4.50, September 1980, 0 575 02664 2
Comic and Curious Cats by Angela Carter and Martin Leman. Gollancz, 32 pp., £3.50, April 1980, 0 575 02592 1
The Wild Washerwomen by John Yeoman and Quentin Blake. Hamish Hamilton, 32 pp., £3.75, October 1980, 0 241 89928 1

Margaret Meek

Kate Crackernuts by Katharine Briggs. Kestrel, 224 pp., £2.95, September 1980, 0 7226 5557 6
Socialisation through Children’s Literature: The Soviet Example by Felicity Ann O’Dell. Cambridge, 278 pp., £14, January 1979, 9780521219686
Divide and Rule by Jan Mark. Kestrel, 248 pp., £3.50, October 1980, 0 7226 5620 3

Peter Bryant

Piaget by Margaret Boden. Fontana, 174 pp., £1.25, September 1980, 0 00 635537 4
Théories du Langage. Théories de l’Apprentissage. Le débat entre Jean Piaget et Noam Chomsky edited by Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini. Seuil, 538 pp.

Blair Worden

Sir Robert Cotton 1586-1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England by Kevin Sharpe. Oxford, 293 pp., £12.50, November 1980, 9780198218777

Keith Kyle

The Palestinians by Jonathan Dimbleby. Quartet, 256 pp., £12.50, September 1980, 0 7043 2205 6
The Rabin Memoirs by Yitzhak Rabin. Weidenfeld, 272 pp., £10, November 1980, 0 297 77546 4

Dick Taverne

Memoirs by Jo Grimond. Heinemann, 316 pp., £7.95, October 1980, 0 434 30600 2

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