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Consul And Rentier

Christopher Hampton Stendhal Michael Wood (Elek £1.25) Flaubert the Master: A Critical and Biographical Study 1856-1880 Enid Starkie (Weidenfeld and Nicolson e5) Stendhal and......

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One of the incidental delights of lee-through publishers' Spring List catalogo is the " brilliant," " sparkling," "even tive," " fiercely sincere " prose that lop literary......