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Francine du Plessix Gray. Doubleday. 213 pp.
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By
Robert Schaeffer. Hill and Wang. 306 pp.
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By
Volkmar Braunbehrens. Weidenfeld. 481 pp.
$25.95

By Hermione
Lee. Pantheon. 410 pp. $29.95

By Stephen Toulmin. Free Press.
228 pp. $22.95

Ivan Sanders

nce upon a time there
was a region of Europe
united not so much by
language or even history
but something more

elusive-by hard-to-de-fine common sensibilities and affinities. What is referred to ever more longingly to- day as Central Europe has in reality always been a crazy quilt of nationalities inhabiting countries wedged between the vastness of Mother Russia and the paternal rigor of Germany. Yet, because many of these countries were for centuries under Aus- trian tutelage, th...

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