Vol. 4 No. 17 · 16 September 1982
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Vol. 4 No. 17 · 16 September 1982
Salman Rushdie
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa. Cape, 122 pp., £5.95, September 1982, 0 224 01990 2
Letters
Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Patrick Taylor, Gabriel Josipovici, C.J. Rawson, Donald Davie, Geoffrey Minish, Margot Heinemann, Charles Martindale, Andrew Graham-Yooll, Brian Mcllroy
Christopher Ricks
Dissentient Voice: Enlightenment and Christian Dissent by Donald Davie. University of Notre Dame Press, 154 pp., £11.85, June 1982, 0 268 00852 3 These the Companions by Donald Davie. Cambridge, 220 pp., £12.50, August 1982, 0 521 24511 7
Sydney Checkland
Accountancy and the British Economy 1840-1980: The Evolution of Ernst and Whinney by Edgar Jones. Batsford, 288 pp., £10, December 1981, 0 7134 3776 6
Michael Mason
Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer by Anthony Hyman. Oxford, 287 pp., £12.50, July 1982, 9780198581703
Jon Elster
Essays in Trespassing: Economics to Politics and Beyond by Albert Hirschman. Cambridge, 310 pp., £20, September 1981, 0 521 23826 9 Shifting Involvements by Albert Hirschman. Martin Robertson, 138 pp., £9.95, September 1982, 0 85520 487 7
Michael Hofmann
Poem: ‘Kleist in Paris’
Angela Carter
The Beauties and Furies by Christina Stead. Virago, 329 pp., £3.95, July 1982, 0 86068 175 0
D.A.N. Jones
Double Yoke by Buchi Emecheta. Dgwugwu Afor, 163 pp., £3, September 1982, 0 9508177 0 8 The Aerodrome by Rex Warner. Bodley Head, 304 pp., £6.95, July 1982, 9780370309262 AVery British Coup by Chris Mullin. Hodder, 220 pp., £6.95, September 1982, 0 340 28586 9 An Ice Cream War by William Boyd. Hamish Hamilton, 370 pp., £7.95, September 1982, 0 241 10868 3 Tempting Fate by Michael Levey. Hamish Hamilton, 220 pp., £7.95, September 1982, 0 241 10801 2
John Bayley
Pea Soup by Christopher Reid. Oxford, 65 pp., £4.50, September 1982, 0 19 211952 4
Elizabeth Cook
Poems by J.H. Prynne. Agneau 2, 320 pp., £12, May 1982, 0 907954 00 6
Blake Morrison
The Fortunate Traveller by Derek Walcott. Faber, 99 pp., £3.95, March 1982, 0 571 11893 3 Sun Poem by Edward Kamau Brathwaite. Oxford, 104 pp., £4.95, April 1982, 0 19 211945 1 Collected Poems by Bernard Spencer, edited by Roger Bowen. Oxford, 149 pp., £8.50, October 1981, 0 19 211930 3 Selected Poems by Odysseus Elytis. Anvil, 114 pp., £6.95, November 1981, 0 85646 076 1 Poems from Oby by George MacBeth. Secker, 67 pp., £4, March 1982, 9780436270178 The New Ewart: Poems 1980-1982 by Gavin Ewart. Hutchinson, 115 pp., £4.95, March 1982, 0 09 146980 5 The Apple-Broadcast by Peter Redgrove. Routledge, 133 pp., £3, November 1981, 0 7100 0884 8
Mary Midgley
Narcissus and Oedipus: The Children of Psychoanalysis by Victoria Hamilton. Routledge, 284 pp., £12.50, April 1982, 0 7100 0869 4 Archetype: A Natural History of the Self by Anthony Stevens. Routledge, 295 pp., £12.50, April 1982, 0 7100 0980 1 Freud on Femininity and Faith by Judith van Herik. California, 216 pp., £17.50, June 1982, 0 520 04368 5
V.G. Kiernan
The Daughters of Karl Marx: Family Correspondence 1866-98 edited by Olga Meier, translated by Faith Evans. Deutsch, 342 pp., £14.95, June 1982, 0 233 97337 0
Michael Irwin
Russian Journal by Andrea Lee. Faber, 239 pp., £8.95, May 1982, 0 571 11904 2
J.P. Stern
Thomas Mann: The Making of an Artist 1875-1911 by Richard Winston. Constable, 325 pp., £12.50, April 1982, 0 09 460060 0
Frank Kermode
Diary: Jerusalem
Peter Burke
Le Roi-Machine: Spectacle et Politique au Temps de Louis XIV by Jean-Marie Apostolidès. Les Editions de Minuit, 164 pp., £4.50Le Portrait du Roi by Louis Marin. Les Editions de Minuit, 300 pp., £5.60
J.M. Roberts
Choiseul. Vol. 1: Father and Son 1719-1754 by Rohan Butler. Oxford, 1133 pp., £48, January 1981, 0 19 822509 1
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