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← Back to all issuesGranta 32: History
Summer 1990
An issue of stories, about the ways in which we make sense of the past. Contributors include Gore Vidal, Simon Schama, Julian Barnes, Richard Holmes, Allan Gurganus, plus Jonathan Raban and Martha Gellhorn.
From this Issue
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The Many Deaths of General Wolfe
Simon Schama
‘But what good had this done except to assuage the endless sense of impotence and rage that swelled inside him as spring turned into a scorching, dripping, foul-smelling summer?’
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Dragons
Julian Barnes
‘Everything bad came from the north. Whatever else they believed, the whole town, both parts of it, knew that.’
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The Savage Notebook
Richard Holmes
‘Richard Savage remains a shadowy figure until the moment of his arrest for murder, in a back alley near Charing Cross, in November 1727.’
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Sovinec in Moravia
Jindrich Streit
‘Before the Second World War there were sixty families – most of them Sudeten Germans – and fifty-eight houses in Sovinec, a small village in Czechoslovakia north-east of Brno. Now there are only twenty-six people living in the eight remaining habitable houses.’
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New York City: Crash Course
Elizabeth Hardwick
‘A spectacular warehouse this city is; folk from anywhere.’
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The Paris Years of Arcadio Huang
Jonathan Spence
‘Only a handful of Chinese before him had journeyed to the West.’
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The Temple in Budapest
Nicola Pressburger & Giorgio Pressburger
‘Like the exterminating angel the rabbi appeared among us.’
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Blessed Assurance
Allan Gurganus
‘I sold funeral insurance to North Carolina black people.’
