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This introduction to Greek tragedy, the origin of much of our modern drama, is the work of a rema...
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Our picture of a chimney sweep is often Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. This meticulously research...
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'I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand o...
James Hamilton-Paterson spends a third of each year on an otherwise uninhabited Philippine island...
In A Woman of Passion, Julia Briggs chronicles the life of author Edith Nesbit who is credited wi...