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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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John Buchan

After two years in South Africa, a Scottish civil servant began turning out best-selling adventure tales.

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Precision and Dispatch

The first setbacks for the German Empire in the Great War came courtesy of ANZAC troops.

819

An Appeal to the Ladies of England

Manto Mavrogenous hoped that her fellow women might show more solidarity with Greece than many men had done.

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Manto Mavrogenous

In 1822, a rich and beautiful young woman took the cause of Greek independence into her capable hands.

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On Holy Ground

A traveller went into a Shropshire pub looking for information about a patch of grass with peculiar properties.

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The Wife of Bath’s Tale

An Arthurian knight commits a dreadful crime against a woman, and is sent by Queen Guinevere on a fitting errand.