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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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St Ahmed

A Turkish official was itching to know the secret behind a Russian slave girl’s personal charm.

1130

‘Recessional’

A heartfelt plea for humility at the height of Britain’s Empire.

1131

The Nightingale and the Glow Worm

A kind of Aesop’s Fable in verse, about mutual respect among those with different talents.

1132

King Solomon’s Mines

Allan Quartermain goes in search of a lost tourist and a legendary hoard of diamonds.

1133

Redeemed for Five Shillings

Elfric, the tenth-century English abbot, suggests a practical way of thinking about the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.

1134

The Jerusalem Temple

The story of the once magnificent Temple in Jerusalem, the city God chose for Israel’s capital.