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A. J. Longford

Richard In grams Diary of a Year Lord Longford (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £10) A it happened, I was reading this book alternately with A.J. Wentworth B.A. and found the experience......

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Bel Mooney Continuing our occasional series, Bel Mooney discusses Beowulf 15 years after She first read it as an undergraduate. I t is not perhaps the most attractive of poems......