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Simon Raven On Eric And St Dominic's

"The kind of book which Dr Arnold might have written had he taken to drink," wrote Hugh Kingsmill of Frederic W. Farrar's Eric, or Little by Little*. And certainly Eric (first......

Tibor Szamuely Maxim Gorky

Untimely Thoughts Maxim Gorky (Garnstone Press £2.25) When I was first taken before my interrogator in Lubyanka prison, just over twenty years ago, he began with an ominous......