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BOOKS By Leon Trotsky

Socialist Press no. 96, 19 April 1978 · scan pp. 8–9 · about 188 words

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THE BASIC WRITINGS by Irving Howe. £3.95 plus THE STALIN New Park Edition €1.50 plus THE TRANSITIONAL PROGI With a glossary 30p plus 10p p&p ON THE TRADE UNIONS Pathfinder, 90p plus 10p p&p.

Available from WSL, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR.

'ROTSKY Edited 'xp OF FALSIFI ITION LAMME alone, the 'prophetic books' take on a daunting character, with masses of unrelieved type that create an inevitable impression of congestion. .

"Seen in their original form, they have an immediate power and compulsion.

Vivid images The mythological types and characters that Blake used to express his vision of human history become vivid images rather than the turgid or ponderous exercises they often seem in bald print.

These plates were not large, and peering at them under glass frames in the Tate exhibition is not the best way to view them. However the only real alternative offered by bourgeois publishers is luxuriously priced volumes.

The exhibition also includes a wide range of Blake's other work: oil paintings, water colours and illustrations both of biblical

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← Contents of Socialist Press no. 96, 19 April 1978