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THE WHITSUN WEDDINGS, by Philip Larkin. A new collection representing the mature work of England's best living poet. As true and fine as his earlier work, these poems reflect a larger, yet highly personal view of the human condition.
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JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. An informed and fair biography of the bitter dean who in Irish exile wrote the most brilliant satires in the English language.
THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF JEAN MACAQUE, by Stuart Cloete. Having written novels about the Boer War that fell short of Churchill's adventures, Cloete now busts loose with the funny story of a philandering journalist who lives it up each day trying to stave off tomorrow.
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