Vol. 7 No. 11 · 20 June 1985
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Vol. 7 No. 11 · 20 June 1985
Noël Annan
Noël Annan places Evelyn Waugh among the deviants of mid-century England
Letters
Naomi Segal, A.J. Ayer, G.M. Watkins, Patricia Craig, Craig Raine, Richard Brown
Virginia Woolf
Story: ‘The Symbol’
Angus Calder
Firing Line by Richard Holmes. Cape, 436 pp., £12.95, March 1985, 0 224 02043 9 The Right of the Line: The Royal Air Force in the European War 1939-1945 by John Terraine. Hodder, 841 pp., £14.95, March 1985, 0 340 26644 9 The Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book by Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt. Viking, 804 pp., £25, May 1985, 0 670 80137 2 ’45: The Final Drive from the Rhine to the Baltic by Charles Whiting. Century, 192 pp., £7.95, March 1985, 0 7126 0812 5 In the Ruins of the Reich by Douglas Botting. Allen and Unwin, 248 pp., £9.95, May 1985, 9780049430365 1945: The World We Fought For by Robert Kee. Hamish Hamilton, 371 pp., £12.95, May 1985, 0 241 11531 0 VE Day: Victory in Europe 1945 by Robin Cross. Sidgwick, 223 pp., £12.95, May 1985, 0 283 99220 4 One Family’s War edited by Patrick Mayhew. Hutchinson, 237 pp., £10.95, May 1985, 0 7126 0812 5 Poems of the Second World War: The Oasis Selection edited by Victor Selwyn. Dent, 386 pp., £12, May 1985, 0 460 10432 2 My Life by Bert Hardy. Gordon Fraser, 192 pp., £14.95, March 1985, 0 86092 083 6 Victory in Europe: D Day to VE Day by Max Hastings and George Stevens. Weidenfeld, 192 pp., £10.95, April 1985, 0 297 78650 4
Peter Robb
Selected Letters of E.M. Forster: Vol. I: 1879-1920, Vol. II: 1921-1970 edited by Mary Lago and P.N. Furbank. Collins, 344 pp., £15.95, October 1983, 0 00 216718 2
Sander Gilman
The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: 1887-1904 edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard, 505 pp., £19.95, May 1985, 0 674 15420 7
Michael Ignatieff
Anna Freud: A Life Devoted to Children by Uwe Henrik Peters, translated by Beatrice Smedley. Weidenfeld, 281 pp., £16.95, April 1985, 0 297 78175 8
R.W. Johnson
Pierre Mendès France by Jean Lacouture, translated by George Holoch. Holmes & Meier, 486 pp., $34.50, December 1984, 0 8419 0856 7
A.J. Ayer
Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and his Work.Vol. I: 1861-1910 by Victor Lowe. Johns Hopkins, 351 pp., £26.40, April 1985, 0 8018 2488 5
Brian Barry
Moral Relativity by David Wong. California, 248 pp., £28, July 1984, 0 520 04976 4 Beyond Subjective Morality: Ethical Reasoning and Political Philosophy by James Fishkin. Yale, 201 pp., £17.50, January 1984, 0 300 03048 7
Michael Hofmann
Poem: ‘Digital Recordings’
John Bayley
Unholy Pleasure: The Idea of Social Class by P.N. Furbank. Oxford, 154 pp., £9.50, June 1985, 0 19 215955 0
Raymond Williams
John Ruskin: The Early Years by Tim Hilton. Yale, 301 pp., £12.95, May 1985, 0 300 03298 6
Dan Jacobson
Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in 19th-Century England by Louis Crompton. Faber, 419 pp., £17.50, May 1985, 0 571 13597 8
Patricia Craig
Crusoe’s Daughter by Jane Gardam. Hamish Hamilton, 224 pp., £8.95, May 1985, 0 241 11526 4 The Tie that Binds by Kent Haruf. Joseph, 246 pp., £9.95, May 1985, 0 7181 2561 4 Hannie Richards, or The Intrepid Adventures of a Restless Wife by Hilary Bailey. Virago, 265 pp., £8.95, May 1985, 9780860683469 A Fine Excess by Jane Ellison. Secker, 183 pp., £8.95, May 1985, 0 436 14601 0 Victory over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist. Faber, 277 pp., £9.95, May 1985, 0 571 13446 7
Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Diary: Extras
Mark Illis
Story: ‘Torches’
Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Poem: ‘Swimming-Baths’
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