Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1405

The Midas Touch

An ancient Greek myth about the dangers of easy wealth.

1406

Pygmalion and Galatea

Pygmalion discovered that prudishness is not the same as purity.

1407

The Caucus Race

Alice experiences for herself the very definition of a pointless exercise.

1408

King Henry II

The great-grandson of William the Conqueror, whose knights assassinated Thomas Becket and whose family harried him to an early grave.

1409

‘The marriage cannot go on!’

The cup of happiness is dashed from Jane Eyre’s lips.

1410

The Peculiar Customs of Lilliput

The people of Lilliput are strangely small, but their ideas are bizarre in a big way.