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A World of Mist

A CURSE ON MEAN-SPIRITED INTELLECTUALS

AND LITERARY SCHOLARS ABOVE ALL

Philip Davis, the editor of The Reader, is fed up with seeing literature treated as fodder for convoluted academic analysis. He leaps to the defence of a like-minded critic attacked in the Times Literary Supplement ...

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