November 1979 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Reviews | General | Reviews | General | Poetry | Reviews Reviews David Owen Hugh Gaitskell Hugh Gaitskell By Philip Williams LR General Ian Gregor Collaborating LR Reviews Charles Palliser Cannibals and Missionaries Cannibals and Missionaries By Mary McCarthy LR Jonathan Keates Fitzgerald’s Leftovers The Price Was High: the Last Uncollected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald By Matthew J Bruccoli (ed) LR General E M Valk Shakespeare’s Realism and the Gallery Poetry Stan Smith Adrian Mitchell Out Loud By Adrian Mitchell LR Reviews Keith Miles Gasping for Words Collins Dictionary of the English Language By Patrick Hanks (ed) LR Ragnhild Hatton Charles II King Charles II By Antonia Fraser LR
Jonathan Keates Fitzgerald’s Leftovers The Price Was High: the Last Uncollected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald By Matthew J Bruccoli (ed) LR
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