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BOOK REVIEWS letters and Eleanor's diaries with linking commentary to narrate Thomas's development as a poet, including his meetings with Frost and Lawrence. First published in 1958 by Oxford University Press, The Last Four Years has been republished to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Thomas's death with an introduction by Anne Arvey, a selection of Eleanor's own sonnets, several photographic illustrations, and a foreword by P. J. Kavanagh. Galsworthy, John. The Forsyte Saga. World's Classics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xxix + 872 pp. Paper $14.95 For a number of years now The Forsyte Saga (The Man of Property, In Chancery , and To Let) has been out of print. Happily this "oversight" has been corrected by this solid edition in OUP's World's Classics series. The Forsyte Saga chronicles the waning social power of a commercial upper-middle class family at the turn of the century. Soames Forsyte, the main character of the novels, has outlived the Victorian age and finds that modern Britain has left him behind . Forsyte's passion for his beautiful but unresponsive wife plays out against larger social issues. This edition has been edited by Geoffrey Harvey and includes his introduction as well as a Forsyte family tree and explanatory notes on the text. Hammond, J. R. A Robert Louis Stevenson Chronology. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. xiv + 101 pp. $45.00 Written as part of a reference series that includes Ruskin, Hopkins, and Lawrence , this abbreviated book gives an orderly overview of Stevenson's life and works. This chronology claims to draw from the latest available scholarship to assign years and months, sometimes complete dates, to the formative and informative events in the author's life, from the date of his declaration of agnosticism to where and when he first met Henry James. Additional sections briefly describe the important figures in Stevenson's life, list chronologically his principal works, and illustrate the Stevenson family tree. The book's index is divided into three sections: The Writing of RLS, People, and Places. I Books Received I Bassnett, Susan, ed. Translating Literature. Essays and Studies 1997, English Association . Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester: Boydell & Brewer, 1997. 142 pp. $49.50 The Brontes' Christmas. Maria Hubert, comp. Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing, 1997. ix + 115 pp. Paper $17.95 Brett, R. L. Faith and Doubt: Religion and Secularisation in Literature from Wordsworth to Larkin. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997 ix + 261 pp. $49.95 381 ELT 41 : 3 1998 Cather, Willa. Alexander's Bridge. World's Classics. 1912; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xliv + 107 pp. Paper $7.95 Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland: An Anthology. Bryan Cheyette, ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. lxxi + 336 pp. Cloth $50.00 Paper $18.95 Corthell, Ronald Ideology and Desire in Renaissance Poetry: The Subject of Donne. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1998. 232 pp. $39.95 Crafton, Lisa Plummer, ed. The French Revolution Debate in English Literature and Culture. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. 176 pp. $55.00 Dickens' Christmas. John Hudson, comp. Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing, 1997. ix + 122 pp. Paper $17.95 Fischlin, Daniel. In Small Proportions: A Poetics of the English Ayre 1596-1622. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. 408 pp. $39.95 Hawes, Donald. Who's Who in Dickens. New York: Routledge, 1998. xxv + 278 pp. Cloth $75.00 Paper $19.99 Jones, Anne Goodwyn and Susan V. Donaldson, eds. Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. χ + 533 pp. Cloth $70.00 Paper $22.50 Lefroy, Helen. Jane Austen. Pocket Biographies. Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing, 1997. ix + 112 pp. Paper $10.95 Letellier, Robert Ignatius. The English Novel, 1660-1700: An Annotated Bibliography . Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. 488 pp. $85.00 Macovski, Michael, ed. Dialogue and Critical Discourse: Language, Culture, Critical Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xii + 272 pp. $55.00 Mahoney, John L. Seeing Into the Things of Life: Essays on Religion and Literature . New York: Fordham University Press, 1998. xx + 364 pp. Cloth $35.00 Paper $17.00 O'Hara, J. D. Samuel Beckett's Hidden Drives: Structural Uses of Depth Psychology . Gainesville: University...

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