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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1195

A True Gentleman of Verona

A young man from the Italian city on the Adige River demonstrates that class has nothing to do with wealth.

1196

Wellington’s Secret

The future hero of Waterloo dealt with political ambush as comfortably as he dealt with the military kind.

1197

One Last Question

English lawyer Sydney Carton goes to the guillotine in place of a French aristocrat.

1198

Northumberland

A poem of nostalgia for the sea breezes and yellow gorse of Northumberland.

1199

‘Sussex’

A meditation on our instinctive love for the place in which we live.

1200

Triumph in Adversity

Two famous figures, one from the sciences and one from the arts, who turned suffering to advantage.