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Vol. 5 No. 20 · 3 November 1983
Neal Ascherson
French and Germans, Germans and French: A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944 by Richard Cobb. University Press of New England, 188 pp., £10.95, July 1983, 0 87451 225 5 Still Life: Scenes from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood by Richard Cobb. Chatto, 161 pp., £8.95, September 1983, 0 7011 2695 7
Letters
Jonathan Wordsworth, Park Honan, John Maynard, Kate Graham, Isabel Jacobs
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Léon Blum by Jean Lacouture, translated by George Holoch. Holmes & Meier, 571 pp., $39.50, October 1982, 0 8419 0775 7
John Bayley
Alexander Pushkin: Complete Prose Fiction by Paul Debreczeny, translated by Walter Arndt. Stanford, 545 pp., $38.50, May 1983, 0 8047 1142 9 The Other Pushkin: A Study of Alexander Pushkin’s Prose Fiction by Paul Debreczeny. Stanford, 386 pp., $32.50, May 1983, 0 8047 1143 7
J.P. Stern
The Sacred Threshold: A Life of Rainer Maria Rilke by J.F. Hendry. Carcanet, 184 pp., £9.95, July 1983, 0 85635 369 8 Rilke: sein Leben, seine Welt, sein Werk by Wolfgang Leppmann. Scherz Verlag, 483 pp., £11, May 1981, 3 502 18407 0 Rainer Maria Rilke: Leben und Werk im Bild edited by Ingeborg Schnack. Insel Verlag, 270 pp., £2.55, May 1977, 3 458 01735 6
Mariusz Ziomecki
Solidarity’s Poet
Slawomir Mrozek
Poem: ‘To the Management of the Louver Museum, Abroad’
John Lucas
The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy by Geoffrey Hill. Agenda and Deutsch, 31 pp., £3, April 1983, 0 233 97549 7
Arnold Davidson
Freud and Man’s Soul by Bruno Bettelheim. Chatto, 112 pp., £6.95, July 1983, 9780701127046
George Miller
Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference and Consciousness by P.N. Johnson-Laird. Cambridge, 513 pp., £27.50, August 1983, 0 521 24123 5
Michael Mason
John Forster: A Literary Life by James Davies. Leicester University Press, 318 pp., £25, June 1983, 0 7185 1164 6 Mr George Eliot: A Biography of George Henry Lewes by David Williams. Hodder, 288 pp., £12.95, June 1983, 0 340 25717 2 Johnnie Cross by Terence de Vere White. Gollancz, 153 pp., £7.95, September 1983, 0 575 03333 9
Rosemary Dinnage
Cold Heaven by Brian Moore. Cape, 271 pp., £7.95, October 1983, 0 224 02099 4 Time After Time by Molly Keane. Deutsch, 247 pp., £7.95, September 1983, 9780233975870 Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin. Weidenfeld, 673 pp., £8.95, October 1983, 0 297 78329 7 August by Judith Rossner. Cape, 376 pp., £8.50, October 1983, 0 224 02172 9 Kiss of Life by Keith Colquhoun. Murray, 159 pp., £8.50, September 1983, 0 7195 4082 8
Patrick Mauriès
Diary: Halfway between France and Britain
Nicholas Penny
Constable: The Painter and his Landscape by Michael Rosenthal. Yale, 255 pp., £15.95, April 1983, 0 300 03014 2 Constable’s England by Graham Reynolds. Weidenfeld, 184 pp., £12.95, September 1983, 0 297 78359 9
James Campbell
Bad Blood: A Family Murder by Richard Levine. Hutchinson, 351 pp., £8.95, May 1983, 0 09 152360 5 The Glasgow Rape Case by Ross Harper and Arnot McWhinnie. Hutchinson, 259 pp., £5.95, June 1983, 0 09 151731 1 Notes from a Waiting-Room by Alan Reeve. Heretic Books, 203 pp., £3.50, May 1983, 0 946097 09 7
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