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October 1979 Issue
October 1979 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • The Mass Transit Panacea and Other Fallacies About Energy
    Charles A. Lave
  • A Writing Woman
    Gail Godwin
  • For W. H. Auden
    Richard Wilbur
  • The Marketing of the Colleges
    Edward B. Fiske
  • On the Wine-Colored Earth of Provence
    Emily A. Orick
  • Jailbird

On the Wine-Colored Earth of Provence

By Emily A. Orick
October 1979 Issue
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