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Important Nonsense, by Lionel Abel
by R.M.
Encounter, May 1987, p. 47
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Reviewed Books and Films
  1. Important Nonsense (1987)
    Lionel Abel
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  2. A Little of All These (1987)
    Tania Alexander
    An Estonian Childhood
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  3. Forever England (1987)
    Beryl Bainbridge
    North and South
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  4. The Faber Book of Diaries (1987)
    Simon Brett
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  5. The Lost Summer (1987)
    Tony Buttitta
    A Personal Memoir of F. Scott Fitzgerald
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  6. The Literature Machine (1987)
    Italo Calvino
    Essays
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  7. Searching for World Security (1985)
    Curt Gasteyger
    Understanding Global Armament and Disarmament
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  8. Selected Literary Criticism of Louis Macneice (1987)
    Alan Heuser and Louis MacNeice
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  9. The Selkirk Strip (1987)
    Ferdinand Mount
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  10. The European Tribe (1987)
    Caryl Phillips
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  11. Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject (1987)
    Makiko Minow-Pinkey
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  12. Words at Work (1987)
    Randolph Quirk
    Lectures on Textual Structure
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  13. Judith Gautier (1987)
    Joanna Richardson
    A Biography
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  14. Thomas Hobbes (1986)
    Arnold A. Rogow
    Radical in the Service of Reaction
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  15. The Precariously Privileged (1987)
    Zuzanna Shonfield
    A Professional Family in Victorian London
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  16. The Hollywood Feature Film in Postwar Britain (1987)
    Paul Swann
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  17. Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes (1987)
    David Thomson
    A Life and a Story
    1 Review, 1 Readable
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