A literary man tries to trick Samuel Johnson into an honest opinion, which was neither necessary nor very rewarding.

For Jane Austen, the best education a father can give to his child is to befriend her.

A mysterious knight and an equally mysterious outlaw agree to preserve one another’s incognito.

The colourful Foreign Secretary humbly accepted a lesson in manners from a local tradesman.

King Saul’s jealousies drove those who loved him away, but David was a very different kind of leader.

A Danish soldier in the seventeenth century imposes the severest sentence he can think of.