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The ghosts in the library
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Bryan Cheyette My Unwritten Books By George Steiner weidenfeld &
nicolson Pounds 14.99 (210pp) Pounds 13.49 (free p&p) from 0870 079
8897
The polymathic George Steiner, both an avowed elitist and also a
tireless populariser, has always been something of a paradox. He is
the doyen of silence and privacy who never seems to stop speaking or
writing. While he may sound assured, he appears increasingly
divided. My Unwritten Books provides ample evidence for this inner
conflict. In a typical refusal to be confined by any one genre, he
has written a part-memoir, part-scholarly miscellany, which ...
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FEATURES: Last orders for Jeffrey Bernard The notorious writer and soak died on Thursday. Keith Waterhouse, who turned his life into a hit play, remembers a difficult friend
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