Alberto Manguel

Reading between the lines

‘Voltaire and the Sun King rolled into one’ is how Elizabeth Longford has described her Oxford tutor Maurice Bowra.

  • Hitler’s Private Library

    Timothy W. Ryback

    The Bodley Head, pp. 278

  • Oscar’s Books

    Thomas Wright

    Chatto, pp. 370

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