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4.0
I'm not sure that Powell was enough of an egoist, as he might say, to really satisfy the reader's craving for personal details as a memoirist. But this is a wonderful collection of sketches of his widely various acquaintance, with the narrator largely revealing himself, so to speak, through the back door. The consideration of Shakespeare at the end provided a fascinating window into his thought processes.
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