Vol. 7 No. 9 · 23 May 1985
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Vol. 7 No. 9 · 23 May 1985
Alan Bennett
Auden in Love by Dorothy Farnan. Faber, 264 pp., £9.95, March 1985, 0 571 13399 1
Letters
A.J. Ayer, Vi Hughes, Earl Miner, Martin Dodsworth, E.E. Duncan-Jones, Patrick Parrinder, Lynn Knight
Jon Elster
The Thread of Life by Richard Wollheim. Harvard, 288 pp., £20, January 1985, 0 06 748875 7
John Bayley
Mrs Henderson, and Other Stories by Francis Wyndham. Cape, 160 pp., £8.50, April 1985, 0 224 02306 3
Michael Mason
‘Men’: A Documentary by Anna Ford. Weidenfeld, 196 pp., £10.95, March 1985, 0 297 78468 4 Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland, edited by Peter Sabor. Oxford, 256 pp., £1.95, February 1985, 0 19 281634 9
Adrian Desmond
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Vol. I: 1821-1836 edited by Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith. Cambridge, 702 pp., £30, March 1985, 0 521 25587 2 The Survival of Charles Darwin: A Biography of a Man and an Idea by Ronald Clark. Weidenfeld, 449 pp., £14.95, April 1985, 0 297 78377 7
Tom Paulin
Four Poems
John Hedley Brooke
Just Before the Origin: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Theory of Evolution by John Langdon Brooks. Columbia, 284 pp., $39, January 1984, 0 231 05676 1 China and Charles Darwin by James Reeve Pusey. Harvard, 544 pp., £21.25, February 1984, 0 674 11735 2
Tam Dalyell
Death of a Rose-Grower: Who killed Hilda Murrell? by Graham Smith. Cecil Woolf, 96 pp., £5.95, April 1985, 0 900821 76 0
Jon Halliday
The Korean War: History and Tactics edited by David Rees. Orbis, 128 pp., £7.99, September 1984, 0 85613 649 2 Der Koreakrieg 1950 bis 1953: Das Scheitern der Amerikanischen Aggression gegen die KDVR by Olaf Groehler. Militarverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 120 pp., DM 6.50The Rainy Spell, and Other Korean Stories translated by Suh Ji-moon. Onyx, 255 pp., £12.95, December 1984, 9780906383179 The Complete Book of MASH by Suzy Kalter. Columbus, 240 pp., £15.95, October 1984, 0 86287 080 1 The Last Days of MASH by Alan Alda and Arlene Alda. Columbus, 150 pp., £8.95, July 1984, 0 88101 008 1
Jonathan Steinberg
Cavour by Denis Mack Smith. Weidenfeld, 292 pp., £12.95, March 1985, 0 297 78512 5 Cavour and Garibaldi 1860: A Study in Political Conflict by Denis Mack Smith. Cambridge, 458 pp., £27.50, April 1985, 0 521 30356 7
Robert Cassen
Resources, Values and Development by Amartya Sen. Blackwell, 584 pp., £25, October 1984, 0 631 13342 9
Prue Shaw
Petrarch by Nicholas Mann. Oxford, 121 pp., £7.95, October 1984, 0 19 287610 4 Petrarch: Poet and Humanist by Kenelm Foster. Edinburgh, 214 pp., £9, July 1984, 0 85224 485 1
Donald Davie
Pound’s Cantos by Peter Makin. Allen and Unwin, 349 pp., £20, March 1985, 0 04 811001 9 To Write Paradise: Style and Error in Pound’s Cantos by Christine Froula. Yale, 208 pp., £18.50, February 1985, 0 300 02512 2 Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics and Writing by Peter Nicholls. Macmillan, 263 pp., £25, September 1984, 0 333 36159 8
Philip Horne
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa and Helen Lane. Faber, 568 pp., £9.95, May 1985, 9780571131143
D.A.N. Jones
Secret Villages by Douglas Dunn. Faber, 170 pp., £8.95, April 1985, 0 571 13443 2 Miss Peabody’s Inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley. Viking, 157 pp., £7.95, April 1985, 0 670 47952 7 Mr Scobie’s Riddle by Elizabeth Jolley. Penguin, 226 pp., £2.95, April 1985, 0 14 007490 2 The Modern Common Wind by Don Bloch. Heinemann, 234 pp., £9.95, May 1985, 0 434 07551 5 Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson. Chatto, 221 pp., £9.50, May 1985, 0 7011 2935 2
Lucy Anne Watt
Two Poems
Patricia Craig
Secret Gardens by Humphrey Carpenter. Allen and Unwin, 235 pp., £12.95, April 1985, 0 04 809022 0 Reading and Righting by Robert Leeson. Collins, 256 pp., £6.95, March 1985, 9780001844131 Pipers at the Gates of Dawn by Jonathan Cott. Viking, 327 pp., £12.95, August 1984, 0 670 80003 1
A.J.P. Taylor
Diary: Standing Up
Mike Selvey
Gubby Allen: Man of Cricket by E.W. Swanton. Hutchinson, 311 pp., £12.95, April 1985, 0 09 159780 3 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack: 1985 edited by John Woodcock. Wisden, 1280 pp., £11.95, April 1985, 0 947766 00 6
Chauncey Loomis
The Norwegian with Scott: Tryggve Gran’s Antarctic Diary 1910-1913 edited by Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith, translated by Ellen Johanne McGhie. HMSO, 258 pp., £9.95, September 1984, 0 11 290382 7
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