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Vol. 3 No. 13 · 16 July 1981
G.R. Elton
The Lisle Letters edited by Muriel St Clare Byrne. Chicago, 744 pp., £125, June 1981, 0 226 08801 4
Letters
Anthony Hallam, Jonathan Fryer
V.G. Kiernan
Revolutionary Empire: The Rise of the English-Speaking Empires from the 15th Century to the 1780s by Angus Calder. Cape, 916 pp., £16.50, April 1981, 0 224 01452 8
Hugo Williams
Poem: ‘Sonny Jim’s House’
A.J.P. Taylor
Democracy and Sectarianism: A Political and Social History of Liverpool 1868-1939 by P.J. Waller. Liverpool, 556 pp., £24.50, May 1981, 0 85223 074 5
Douglas Johnson
The Popes and European Revolution by Owen Chadwick. Oxford, 646 pp., £28, March 1981, 0 19 826919 6
Christopher Hill
Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing, 1516-1700 by J.C. Davis. Cambridge, 427 pp., £25, March 1981, 0 521 23396 8 Science and Society in Restoration England by Michael Hunter. Cambridge, 232 pp., £18.50, March 1981, 0 521 22866 2
Richard Tuck
Social Justice in the Liberal State by Bruce Ackerman. Yale, 392 pp., £11, October 1980, 0 300 02439 8 Justice and Liberty by David Raphael. Athlone, 192 pp., £13, November 1980, 0 485 11195 0
Graham Hough
A Start in Life by Anita Brookner. Cape, 176 pp., £5.95, May 1981, 9780224018999 Rhine Journey by Ann Schlee. Macmillan, 165 pp., £5.95, March 1981, 0 333 28320 1 The Sure Salvation by John Hearne. Faber, 224 pp., £6.50, May 1981, 0 571 11670 1 Beloved Latitudes by David Pownall. Gollancz, 140 pp., £6.95, May 1981, 0 575 02988 9
Francis Wyndham
Story: ‘The Half Brother’
Dan Jacobson
The Oxford Book of Short Stories by V.S. Pritchett. Oxford, 547 pp., £9.50, June 1981, 0 19 214116 3 The Short Story in English by Walter Allen. Oxford, 413 pp., £9.50, February 1981, 0 19 812666 2
Claude Rawson
English Subtitles by Peter Porter. Oxford, 56 pp., £3.50, March 1981, 0 19 211942 7 Unplayed Music by Carol Rumens. Secker, 53 pp., £4.50, February 1981, 9780436439001 Close Relatives by Vicki Feaver. Secker, 64 pp., £4.50, February 1981, 0 436 15185 5
Patricia Beer
Part of a Journey: An Autobiographical Journal 1977-1979 by Philip Toynbee. Collins, 398 pp., £9.95, April 1981, 0 00 211696 0
Gabriel Josipovici
Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective edited by William Rubin. Thames and Hudson, 464 pp., £10.95, July 1980, 0 500 23310 1 Picasso: His Life and Work by Roland Penrose. Granada, 517 pp., £9.99, May 1981, 0 7139 1420 3 Portrait of Picasso by Roland Penrose. Thames and Hudson, 128 pp., £3.95, June 1981, 0 500 27226 3 Viva Picasso: A Centennial Celebration, 1881-1981 by Donald Duncan. Allen Lane, 152 pp., £12.95, May 1981, 0 7139 1420 3 Picasso: The Cubist Years, 1907-1916 by Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet. Thames and Hudson, 376 pp., £60, October 1979, 9780500091340 Picasso’s Guernica: The Labyrinth of Vision by Frank Russell. Thames and Hudson, 334 pp., £12.50, April 1980, 0 500 23298 9
Brigid Brophy
The Game: My 40 Years in Tennis by Jack Kramer and Frank Deford. Deutsch, 318 pp., £8.95, June 1981, 0 233 97307 9
Raymond Williams
Collected Plays: Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, edited by Ralph Manheim, translated by John Willett. Methuen, 264 pp., £7.50, October 1980, 0 413 39070 5 Collected Plays: Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brecht, edited by Ralph Manheim and John Willett, translated by John Willett. Methuen, 154 pp., £7.50, January 1980, 0 413 39780 7 Collected Plays: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht, edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim, translated by Ralph Manheim. Methuen, 144 pp., £7.50, August 1981, 0 413 47270 1
David Cannadine
Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block 1887-1920 by Jerry White. Routledge, 301 pp., £11.50, September 1980, 0 7100 0603 9 East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding by Raphael Samuel. Routledge, 355 pp., £11.50, April 1981, 0 7100 0725 6
Jonathan Sumption
Crusader Institutions by Joshua Prawer. Oxford, 519 pp., £30, September 1980, 0 19 822536 9
Ronald Fraser
Modern Spain 1875-1980 by Raymond Carr. Oxford, 201 pp., £7.50, March 1981, 0 19 215828 7
C.K. Stead
Poem: ‘A Warm Wind from the East’
E.S. Turner
An Ensign in the Peninsular War: The Letters of John Aitchison edited by W.F.K Thompson. Joseph, 349 pp., £15.95, March 1981, 0 7181 1828 6
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