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The pleasures of peace

by Bryan Appleyard

Historical FictionBiography & MemoirPhilosophyYoung Adult

1989

An explanation of what has happened to Britain since World War II in the fields of fiction, poetry, philosophy and the pictorial and plastic arts. Bryan Appleyard is the author of "The Culture Club: Crisis in the Arts" and "Richard Rogers: a Biography".

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