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Encounter • 38 Years, 424 Issues, 9,315 Articles, 41,008pp
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A Word or Two Before You Go..., by Jacques Barzun
by R.M.
Encounter, April 1987, p. 64
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Reviewed Books and Films
  1. A Word or Two Before You Go... (1987)
    Jacques Barzun
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  2. Destined to be Wives (1986)
    Barbara Caine
    The Sisters of Beatrice Webb
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  3. Head Above Water (1987)
    Buchi Emecheta
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  4. Ari: The Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis (1986)
    Peter Evans
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  5. The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown (1987)
    G.K. Chesterton
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  6. Nan (1987)
    Sharon Gmelch
    The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  7. Out of Egypt (1986)
    Ihab Habib Hassan
    Scenes and Arguments of an Autobiography
    2 Reviews, 2 Readable
  8. Faking it (1987)
    Ian Haywood
    Art and the Politics of Forgery
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  9. Freud and His Father (1986)
    Marianne Krull
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  10. The Special Relationship (1987)
    William Roger Louis and Hedley Bull
    Anglo-American Relations Since 1945
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  11. Cambodian Witness (1986)
    Someth May and James Fenton
    The Autobiography of Someth May
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  12. Ends of the World (1987)
    Cecily MacKworth
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  13. The Violent Society (1987)
    Eric Moonman
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  14. Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood (1986)
    Victor Perera
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  15. Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew (1987)
    Dan Vittorio Segre
    An Italian Story
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  16. The Prodigy (1986)
    Amy Wallace
    A Biography of William James Sidis, the Worlds's Greatest Child Prodigy
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
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