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A young Jewish girl is chosen as the Queen of Persia, but quickly finds she has enemies.
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© Gordon Elliott, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Jane Eyre meets a not very handsome stranger, and likes him all the better for it.
© Derek Harper, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Marianne Dashwood sprains an ankle, but help is at hand.
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John Kapodistrias had an instinct for how a long-oppressed people might think.
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Samuel Sidney, a Victorian expert on Australian matters, explained how cutting tax and regulation on Britain’s global trade made everyone better off.
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Within little more than half a century a British penal colony turned into a prosperous, free-trade democracy.