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Chasing His Own Tale

David Montrose THE LAST VOYAGE OF SOMEBODY THE SAILOR by John Barth Hodder & Stoughton, £15.99, pp. 573 A mong far too many other thing, John Barth's last (very fat) novel, The......

Rude Sketches Worked Up For The Public

John Leighton COROT IN ITALY by Peter Galassi Yale University Press, £35, pp.264 I n Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband Mrs Cheveley declines an invitation to view some pictures by......