Vol. 6 No. 13 · 19 July 1984
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Vol. 6 No. 13 · 19 July 1984
Noël Annan
Faces of Philip: A Memoir of Philip Toynbee by Jessica Mitford. Heinemann, 175 pp., £9.95, July 1984, 0 434 46802 9
Letters
Nicolas Walter, John Skoyles, William Milne, George Schloss, Michael Horovitz, James Harding
Anthony Pagden
In God’s Name by David Yallop. Cape, 334 pp., £9.95, June 1984, 0 244 02089 2
Simon Raven
Caruthers & Co
Hyam Maccoby
Jesus and the Politics of his Day edited by Ernst Bammel and C.F.D. Moule. Cambridge, 511 pp., £37.50, February 1984, 9780521220224
Colin Legum
Mutatu Mutandis – or, Worse News at the ‘Observer’
P.N. Furbank
Henry James Letters. Vol. IV: 1895-1915 edited by Leon Edel. Harvard, 835 pp., £24, April 1984, 9780674387836
J.I.M. Stewart
Secrets of a Woman’s Heart: The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1920-1969 by Hilary Spurling. Hodder, 336 pp., £14.95, June 1984, 0 340 26241 9
Selima Hill
Poem: ‘Making for Open Country’
Frank Kermode
Desmond MacCarthy: The Man and his Writings by David Cecil. Constable, 313 pp., £9.95, May 1984, 9780094656109
Nicholas Penny
The Gymnasium of the Mind: The Journals of Roger Hinks 1933-1963 edited by John Goldsmith. Michael Russell, 287 pp., £10.95, May 1984, 0 85955 096 6
David Cannadine
The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918 by Stephen Kern. Weidenfeld, 372 pp., £16.50, October 1983, 0 297 78341 6 Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World by David Landes. Harvard, 482 pp., £17, January 1984, 0 674 76800 0
Peter Redgrove
Two Poems
Denis Donoghue
Literary Education: A Revaluation by James Gribble. Cambridge, 182 pp., £16.50, November 1983, 0 521 25315 2 Reconstructing Literature edited by Laurence Lerner. Blackwell, 218 pp., £15, August 1983, 0 631 13323 2 Counter-Modernism in Current Critical Theory by Geoffrey Thurley. Macmillan, 216 pp., £20, October 1983, 0 333 33436 1
P.F. Strawson
Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation by Donald Davidson. Oxford, 292 pp., £16, March 1984, 9780198246176
Stephen Knight
Poem: ‘The Gift’
Rupert Wilkinson
Saying yes
D.A.N. Jones
Swallow by D.M. Thomas. Gollancz, 312 pp., £8.95, June 1984, 0 575 03446 7 First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer. Hodder, 446 pp., £8.95, July 1984, 0 340 35266 3 Morning Star by Simon Raven. Blond and Briggs, 264 pp., £8.95, June 1984, 9780856341380
Christopher Burns
Story: ‘Blue’
Alan Sheridan
Diary: Regarding Foucault
Richard Altick
Thomas Carlyle: A Biography by Fred Kaplan. Cambridge, 614 pp., £25, January 1984, 0 521 25854 5 Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose. Chatto, 318 pp., £11.95, March 1984, 0 7011 2825 9 A Carlyle Reader edited by G.B. Tennyson. Cambridge, 544 pp., £25, May 1984, 0 521 26238 0
Donald Rayfield
Dostoevsky. Vol II: The Years of Ordeal 1850-1859 by Joseph Frank. Robson, 320 pp., £14.95, April 1984, 0 86051 242 8 The Village of Stepanchikovo by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Ignat Avsey. Angel, 255 pp., £8.95, November 1983, 0 946162 06 9
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