Autumn 1978

John Bovey’s “Boats Against the Current: Notes of A Returning Exile” George P. Elliott’s “Snarls of Beauty” Norman A. Graebner’s “Government Without Consensus” Paul Roazen’s “Orwell, Freud, and 1984” Stories by John Bovey, George P. Elliott, Norman A. Graebner, and Paul Roazen Poetry by Irving Feldman, Boris Pasternak, and Carol Muske Dukes
Autumn 1978

Volume 54, Number 4

Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1978 cover
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Table of contents

Essays 
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Autumn 1978

Orwell, Freud, and 1984

By Paul Roazen
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1978

In Addition to All That There Was the Winter

By Boris Pasternak
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1978

Whistles of Cops

By Boris Pasternak
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1978

Mein Liebchen, Was Willst Du Noch Mehr?

By Boris Pasternak
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1978

Raspad

By Boris Pasternak
 
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The Nature-Loving Victorians

By Richard D. Altick
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Boats Against the Current: Notes of A Returning Exile

By John Bovey
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Half College Graduate and Half Algonquin

By Michael Meyer
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Sparrow Hills

By Boris Pasternak
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The Green Room, Autumn 1978

By Staige D. Blackford
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Moochkap

By Boris Pasternak
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Notes on Current Books, Autumn 1978

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The Flies of the Moochkap Teahouse

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Spitfire Autumn

By W. D. Wetherell
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Choreography

By Carol Muske
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Snarls of Beauty

By George P. Elliott
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Government Without Consensus

By Norman A. Graebner
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Androgyny

By Carol Muske
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Blacktail

By David Arn
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The Carpenter

By Kathryn Stripling
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The Surfer Man

By Dennis J. Reader
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Three Tales

By Irving Feldman
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Perjury, History, and Unreliable Witnesses

By David Levin
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The Wake

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The Eloquence of Fact

By George Core
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Guadalajara Hospital

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A Testament to Hope and Courage

By James R. Kincaid
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Reprint, Autumn 1978

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