Vol. 10 No. 3 · 4 February 1988
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Vol. 10 No. 3 · 4 February 1988
Anthony Howard
Anthony Howard writes about the spitting image of the Church of England
Letters
R.W. Johnson, Howard Millbank, John Fletcher, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Danny Karlin, Bruno Nightingale, John Raby
David Trotter
Argufying: Essays on Literature and Culture by William Empson, edited by John Haffenden. Chatto, 657 pp., £25, October 1987, 0 7011 3083 0
Christopher Norris
Paul de Man’s Past
Douglas Oliver
Poem: ‘The Oracle of the Drowned’
Robert Dawidoff
The Works of George Santayana. Vol. I: Persons and Places edited by William Holzberger and Herman Saatkamp. MIT, 761 pp., £24.95, March 1987, 0 262 19238 1 George Santayana: A Biography by John McCormick. Knopf, 612 pp., $30, August 1988, 0 394 51037 2
Ian Hacking
The False Prison: A Study of the Development of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, Vol. I by David Pears. Oxford, 202 pp., £19.50, September 1987, 0 19 824771 0 Wittgenstein’s Nephew by Thomas Bernhard. Quartet, 120 pp., £8.95, February 1987, 0 7043 2611 6
Martin Pugh
British Social Attitudes: The 1987 Report edited by Roger Jowell, Sharon Witherspoon and Lindsay Brock. Gower, 260 pp., £28.50, October 1987, 0 556 00740 9 Educational Opportunity and Social Change in England by Michael Sanderson. Faber, 164 pp., £3.95, September 1987, 9780571148769 Wealth and Inequality in Britain by W.D. Rubinstein. Faber, 167 pp., £3.95, August 1986, 0 571 13924 8 AProperty-Owning Democracy? Housing in Britain by M.J. Daunton. Faber, 148 pp., £3.95, September 1987, 0 571 14615 5 The Government of Space: Town Planning in Modern Society by Alison Ravetz. Faber, 154 pp., £3.95, August 1986, 9780571145683
David Gilmour
Franco by Juan Pablo Fusi, translated by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Unwin Hyman, 202 pp., £12.95, October 1987, 0 04 923083 2
John Lanchester
The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick. Deutsch, 144 pp., £9.95, November 1987, 9780233981420 The Birds of the Innocent Wood by Deirdre Madden. Faber, 147 pp., £9.95, January 1988, 0 571 14880 8 The Coast of Bohemia by Zdena Tomin. Century, 201 pp., £11.95, October 1987, 0 09 168490 0
Elizabeth Mavor
I know my own heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister, 1791-1840 edited by Helena Whitbread. Virago, 370 pp., £7.95, February 1988, 0 86068 840 2
Ted Hughes
Poem: ‘Glimpse’
Rosamund Stanhope
Poem: ‘Lapidary’
Carolyn Steedman
Spoken History by George Ewart Evans. Faber, 255 pp., £9.95, August 1987, 0 571 14982 0
Toby Forward
Diary: Being Rahila Khan
Owen Dudley Edwards
Something of Myself by Rudyard Kipling, edited by Robert Hampson and Richard Holmes. Penguin, 220 pp., £3.95, January 1987, 0 14 043308 2 Stalky & Co by Rudyard Kipling, introduced by Isabel Quigley. Oxford, 325 pp., £2.95, January 1987, 0 19 281660 8 Kim by Rudyard Kipling, introduced by Alan Sandison. Oxford, 306 pp., £2.95, January 1987, 0 19 281651 9
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