January 1991 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Foreign Fiction | English Studies | Short Story Foreign Fiction Susannah Herbert They All Love Simon General in his Labyrinth By Gabriel Garcia Marquez LR English Studies Michael De-La-Noy The Land Was Theirs Countries of the Mind: The Meaning of Place to Writers By Gillian Tindall LR Alan Bell Earned His Pension A Dictionary of the English Language (2 Vols) By Samuel Johnson LR Short Story Gravity A Place I’ve Never Been By David Leavitt LR
Michael De-La-Noy The Land Was Theirs Countries of the Mind: The Meaning of Place to Writers By Gillian Tindall LR
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