Folk and Fields Suffice
/When the tottering Roman Empire abandoned its far-flung outpost of Britain, the natives were forced to fend for themselves. The results were one part "Lord of the Flies" and one part "Camelot."
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/Bram Stoker's "Dracula" is the epitome of lurking evil -- but two recent novels do their best to unearth the smoldering bad-boy behind the murderous facade. So: Was Mina Harker smitten before she was bitten?
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/For more than fifty years and more than fifty novels, Louis Auchincloss chronicled the lives of New York's upper class. His last book is a memoir of his life among that upper class -- but is truth stranger than fiction?
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