Vol. 3 No. 19 · 15 October 1981
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Vol. 3 No. 19 · 15 October 1981
Noël Annan
Blind Eye to Murder by Tom Bower. Deutsch, 501 pp., £9.95, July 1981, 0 233 97292 7 The Road to Nuremberg by Bradley Smith. Deutsch, 303 pp., £7.95, October 1981, 0 233 97410 5
Letters
Michael Dummett, I.M. Lewis, Jeremy Stiles, Patrick Cross, Ronald Fraser, Brian Carstairs
Clive James
L’opera in versi by Eugenio Montale, edited by Rosanna Bettarini and Gianfranco Contini. Einaudi, 1225 pp., £26.15Xenia and Motets by Eugenio Montale, translated by Kate Hughes. Agenda, 45 pp., £3, December 1980, 0 902400 25 8 The Man I Pretend to Be: The Colloquies and Selected Poems of Guido Gozzano edited by Michael Palma. Princeton, 254 pp., £9.30, July 1981, 0 691 06467 9
Jonathan Wordsworth
Wordsworth in Love
V.G. Kiernan
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner. Weidenfeld, 349 pp., £9.95, August 1981, 9780297776383
Barbara Wootton
Women in Top Jobs by Michael Fogarty, Isobel Allen and Patrick Walters. Heinemann, 273 pp., £14, July 1981, 0 435 83806 7
Alan Bennett
Forms of Talk by Erving Goffman. Blackwell, 335 pp., £12, September 1981, 0 631 12788 7
Roy Harris
Language and Linguistics: An Introduction by John Lyons. Cambridge, 356 pp., £15, June 1981, 0 521 23034 9
W.D. Hart
Philosophical Subjects: Essays Presented to P.F. Strawson edited by Zak van Straaten. Oxford, 302 pp., £12.50, November 1980, 9780198246039
A.J. Ayer
Hume and the Problem of Causation by Tom Beauchamp and Alexander Rosenberg. Oxford, 327 pp., £15, August 1981, 0 19 520236 8 The Science of Legislator: The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith by Knud Haakonssen. Cambridge, 240 pp., £17.50, September 1981, 0 521 23891 9
John Sutherland
Life Stories by A.L. Barker. Hogarth, 319 pp., £6.95, September 1981, 0 7012 0538 5 Many Men and Talking Wives by Helen Muir. Duckworth, 156 pp., £7.95, September 1981, 0 7156 1613 7 Good Behaviour by Molly Keane. Deutsch, 245 pp., £6.50, September 1981, 9780233973326 A Separate Development by Christopher Hope. Routledge, 199 pp., £6.95, October 1981, 0 7100 0954 2 From Little Acorns by Howard Buten. Harvester, 156 pp., £6.95, October 1981, 0 7108 0390 7 Fortnight’s Anger by Roger Scruton. Carcanet, 224 pp., £6.95, October 1981, 0 85635 376 0
Ian Hamilton
Beyond the Pale by William Trevor. Bodley Head, 256 pp., £6.95, October 1981, 9780370304427 The Black House by Patricia Highsmith. Heinemann, 258 pp., £6.95, September 1981, 0 434 33518 5 Lantern Lecture by Adam Mars-Jones. Faber, 197 pp., £6.95, September 1981, 0 571 11813 5
Richard Murphy
Poem: ‘Amazement’
P.N. Furbank
Ford Madox Ford: Prose and Politics by Robert Green. Cambridge, 218 pp., £16.50, July 1981, 9780521236102
C.K. Stead
Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait by Patrick White. Cape, 272 pp., £7.95, October 1981, 9780224029247
Douglas Johnson
Simone de Beauvoir and the Limits of Commitment by Anne Whitmarsh. Cambridge, 212 pp., £14.50, June 1981, 9780521236690 Un Fils Rebelle by Olivier Todd. Grasset, 293 pp., £5.50, June 1981, 2 246 21231 6 The Intellectual Resistance in Europe by James Wilkinson. Harvard, 358 pp., £14, July 1981, 0 674 45775 7
Alan Hollinghurst
Remembering Britten edited by Alan Blyth. Hutchinson, 181 pp., £7.95, June 1981, 0 09 144950 2 Britten and Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936 by Donald Mitchell. Faber, 176 pp., £7.50, February 1981, 0 571 11715 5
Hans Keller
The Proms and Natural Justice: A Plan for Renewal by Robert Simpson. Toccata Press, 66 pp., £1.95, July 1981, 0 907689 00 0 The Proms and the Men Who Made Them by Barrie Hall. Allen and Unwin, 192 pp., £8.95, June 1981, 0 04 780024 0 The Nine Symphonies of Beethoven by Antony Hopkins. Heinemann, 290 pp., £12.50, April 1981, 0 435 81427 3
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