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DOVER, K., Marginal Comment. A memoir. Duckworth, London, 1994. VIII,271p. ills. Cloth wrps. Edges slightly stained. Nice copy. (Rare). 'For the most part the book’s outspokenness is an unambiguous strength. It gives the writing an edge; it helps to sustain one’s interest through all but a few dull patches (mostly the ones about university administration). The most valuable sections are naturally those that portray, warts and all, the world of classical scholarship, but there are scarcely less absorbing accounts of Dover’s childhood (South London suburbia, good-humored mother, father 'with the foulest temper of anyone I knew or have known since'), of his teenage fascination, which was fueled purely by his own reading, with the languages of the Western Pacific, and of his war service (anti-aircraft batteries) in North Africa and Italy. (...) With all its oddities and blemishes, Dover has written an excellent book. The sensational bits are what will inevitably attract readers first, and stay with most of them longest; but it still deserves to be judged - and recommended - as a whole.' (JOHN GROSS in The New Criterion, March 1995). € 100.00 (Antiquarian) ISBN: 9780715626306