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one The Absence of Mr Glass The consulting-rooms of Dr Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front at Scarborough, in a series of very large and well-lighted french windows, which showed the North Sea like one endless outer wall of...

General Introduction This two-volume study of the black American writer makes no claim to be completely comprehensive, certain authors of considerable merit being omitted altogether. Its aim is rather to examine the achievement of some of the major talents to emerge from the black community, to...