This book took more than 20 years of research but only 13 months to write and changed the way in which we see the world. Obvious, really, that this could be nothing but Charles Darwin’s The Origin of the Species (Oxford University Press, £5.99 pbk, ISBN 0 19 281783 3). An elegant introduction from Gillian Beer, King Edward VII Professor of English at Cambridge includes an account of the writers that Darwin refers to in his text.
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