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Summer 1953 • Vol. XV No. 3 • Book Reviews |

Three English Novels

By Nona Balakian

The Retreat by P. H. Newby. Knopf. $3.

The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann. Harcourt. $3.95.

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Radical Innocence: Studies In The Contemporary American Novel by Ihab Hassan. Princeton University Press. $6.00An unbiased review of Ihab Hassans’ Radical Innocence must begin with admiration for the conception of […]

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