Vol. 2 No. 23 · 4 December 1980

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Vol. 2 No. 23 · 4 December 1980

Stuart Hampshire

Freud by Ronald Clark. Weidenfeld, 652 pp., £9.95, July 1980, 0 297 77661 4

Frederick Crews

The American literary critic Frederick Crews explains why he has rejected Freud

Letters

Donald MacRae, Selma James, Paula Neuss, Peter Geach, J.P. Smith, Alan Andrews, Henry Bondi, Elizabeth Mackenzie

Rosemary Dinnage

The Story of Ruth by Morton Schatzman. Duckworth, 306 pp., £6.95, September 1980, 0 7156 1504 1

Mary-Kay Wilmers

Paedophilia: The Radical Case by Tom O’Carroll. Peter Owen, 280 pp., £14.95, October 1980, 0 7206 0546 6

D.A.N. Jones

My Life with Nye by Jennie Lee. Cape, 277 pp., £8.50, November 1980, 0 224 01785 3
Debts of Honour by Michael Foot. Davis-Poynter, 240 pp., £9.50, November 1980, 0 7067 6243 6

Michael Davie

The Letters of Evelyn Waugh edited by Mark Amory. Weidenfeld, 664 pp., £14.95, September 1980, 0 297 77657 6

Clive James

Poem: ‘To Anthony Thwaite at Fifty’

Raymond Williams

From Fringe to Flying Circus by Roger Wilmut. Eyre Methuen, 264 pp., £7.95, October 1980, 0 413 46950 6

Alan Brien

The Best of Alan Coren  Robson, 416 pp., £7.50, October 1980, 0 86051 121 9
Tissues for Men by Alan Coren. Robson, 160 pp., £4.95, September 1980, 0 86051 116 2

Reyner Banham

Travels in Arabia Deserts by Charles Doughty. Dover, 674 pp., £11.35, June 1980, 0 486 23825 3

Samuel Hynes

The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Vol. 2 edited by Richard Purdy and Michael Millgate. Oxford, 309 pp., £17.50, October 1980, 0 19 812619 0

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Promenades by Richard Cobb. Oxford, 158 pp., £5.95, June 1980, 0 19 211758 0

Stefan Collini

Lewis Namier and Zionism by Norman Rose. Oxford, 182 pp., £9.95, October 1980, 0 19 822621 7
Personal Impressions by Isaiah Berlin. Hogarth, 219 pp., £9.50, October 1980, 0 7012 0510 5

Ted Hughes

Poem: ‘Nymet’

Claude Rawson

Overheard by God: Fiction and Prayer in Herbert, Milton, Dante and St John by A.D. Nuttall. Methuen, 147 pp., £8.95, September 1980, 0 416 73980 6

Graham Hough

The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams. Allen Lane, 397 pp., £5.95, October 1980, 0 7139 1407 6

Michael Irwin

Collected Short Stories by Kingsley Amis. Hutchinson, 303 pp., £6.95, October 1980, 0 09 143430 0
World’s End by Paul Theroux. Hamish Hamilton, 211 pp., £6.50, October 1980, 0 241 10447 5
Packages by Richard Stern. Sidgwick, 151 pp., £5.95, November 1980, 0 283 98689 1
Oxbridge Blues by Frederic Raphael. Cape, 213 pp., £5.95, October 1980, 9780224018715
The Fat Man in History by Peter Carey. Faber, 186 pp., £4.95, October 1980, 0 571 11619 1

John Lahr

Plays by Noël Coward. Eyre Methuen, 358 pp., £5.95, September 1980, 0 413 46050 9

Noël Coward

Story: ‘Cynthia and Elise – an extract from Noël Coward’s unpublished play ‘Semi-Monde’’

Edmund Leach

Evans-Pritchard by Mary Douglas. Fontana, 140 pp., £1.50, March 1980, 0 00 634006 7

Mark Swenarton

The Work of Sir Gilbert Scott by David Cole. Architectural Press, 244 pp., £25, May 1980, 0 85139 723 9
Lutyens Country Houses by Daniel O’Neill. Lund Humphries, 167 pp., £8.95, May 1980, 0 85331 428 4
A Revolution in London Housing: LCC Housing Architects and their Work 1893-1914 by Susan Beattic. GLC/Architectural Press, 127 pp., £6.95, July 1980, 0 85139 560 0

Peter Campbell

Edwin Lutyens by Mary Lutyens. Murray, 294 pp., £12.95, October 1980, 0 7195 3777 0

Geoffrey Moorhouse

Tracks by Robyn Davidson. Cape, 256 pp., £5.95, October 1980, 0 224 01861 2

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