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Summer 1965 • Vol. XXVII No. 3 • Reviews: Dickens and Some Others: Special Review Section |

Children of Violence

Children of Violence by Doris Lessing. Simon and Schuster, $7.50.

I have had eight weeks’ experience of matrimony. And do I regret the step I have taken? No, though I must confess, in my secret heart, that Arthur is not what I thought him at first, and if I had known him in the beginning as thoroughly as I do now, I probably never should have loved him.

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