The Savage God

by Al Alvarez

He begins the book by talking about Sylvia Plath, apparently she was a friend of his.

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The Savage God

by Al Alvarez

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Other books by Al Alvarez

Feeding the Rat by Al Alvarez

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Middlemarch by George Eliot

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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Feeding the Rat
by Al Alvarez

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë