CLASSICS IN PAPERBACK From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: June 11, 1995| Author: | Copyright 1995 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

! The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake, Dover pounds 4.95. Less well known than the Songs of Innocence and Experience, this short but exhilarating sequence of visionary prose and free verse was etched, hand-coloured and published by Blake himself. It is a frontal assault on scientific reductionism, a libertarian chapbook, a holistic Bible and a text of near-Zen contrariness. It is also politically scalpel-sharp: "Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion," he reminds us.

! Sparrow by Giovanni Verga, trs Christine Donougher, Dedalus pounds 6.99. A ...

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