October 1998 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Belles Lettres | Meditation | General | American Fiction | Biography Belles Lettres John Bayley A Pleasant Collection of Bits and Pieces The New Oxford Book of English Prose By John Gross (ed) LR Meditation Muriel Spark An Unknown Author Who Put God in His Place The Book of Job By Unknown (Translated and introduced by Raymond P Scheindlin) LR General Julian Barnes Lost Her Strangeness Zarafa: The True Story of a Giraffe's Journey from the Plains of Africa to the Heart of Post-Napoleonic France By Michael Allin LR American Fiction Justin Cartwright America’s Delusion I Married A Communist By Philip Roth LR Elaine Showalter Huck Finn as a Female – All in a Good Cause The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton By Jane Smiley LR Biography Sara Wheeler Tales of Derring-Do Barrow's Boys By Fergus Fleming LR
John Bayley A Pleasant Collection of Bits and Pieces The New Oxford Book of English Prose By John Gross (ed) LR
Muriel Spark An Unknown Author Who Put God in His Place The Book of Job By Unknown (Translated and introduced by Raymond P Scheindlin) LR
Julian Barnes Lost Her Strangeness Zarafa: The True Story of a Giraffe's Journey from the Plains of Africa to the Heart of Post-Napoleonic France By Michael Allin LR
Elaine Showalter Huck Finn as a Female – All in a Good Cause The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton By Jane Smiley LR
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