Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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A Solemn Duty

Monsieur St Aubert falls seriously ill on a walking tour with his daughter Emily, and before the end asks an unexpected favour.

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The Fairly Honest Lawyer

Andre-Louis Moreau lives for vengeance on the master swordsman who killed his friend.

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‘The Overland Mail’

A tribute to the postal workers of British India, and to the kind of empire they helped to build.

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The Sneeze of History

It was the opinion of Leo Tolstoy that even Napoleon was never master of his own destiny.

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Big Spenders

Adam Smith warns that politicians are the last people who should lecture the public about how to run their affairs.

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The Glorious First of June

Admiral Lord Howe battered a French fleet far out in the Atlantic, and helped prevent the spread of bloody revolution.