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1 天前 · Howard Davies on Bernard Mandeville * Claire Harman on Emily Dickinson * Stephen Smith on Piet Mondrian * Colin Jones on fools * Thomas Hodgkinson on Hollywood flops * Dennis Duncan on blank pages * Peter Davidson on Henry Fuseli * Deirdre McCloskey on Ayn Rand * Richard Davenport-Hines on Clarissa Eden * Peter Marshall on monasteries * Laura Ashe on medieval women * Charles Shaar Murray on ...

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In the Current Issue: There must have been more inappropriate titles for books than this one, but to suggest that W Somerset Maugham was a Traveller in Romance is, on the implausible face of it, rather like calling Marco Polo a home-body. Whoever frowned more scornfully against romantic cant than the Old Party? Indeed, Maugham’s old age began early: he was not yet out of his twenties when he ...

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