The Copybook

Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.

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© Serge Novikoff, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

How I Met Nastenka Fyodor Dostoevsky

The story-teller recalls his first meeting with Nastenka, and the man who brought them together.

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By Jose Maria Obregon (1832–1902), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Columbus Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Clough marvels at the vision of a man who could cross the Atlantic without knowing there was a farther shore.

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By Just L'Hernault (1832-1922), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Who’ll Turn the Grindstone? Charles Miner

Whenever Charles Miner suspected an ulterior motive, he would say quietly ‘That man has an axe to grind!’

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By Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), via WIkimedia Commons. Public domain.

A Full Day’s Play Charles Dickens

It was one of those rare occasions when a game of cricket had not been interrupted by the weather, but would the Church be so forgiving?

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By Edmund Blair Leighton (1852–1922), Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Sunday in London Washington Irving

Every Sunday, the Englishman is raised to heaven by the choir, and then taken to her bosom by Mother Earth.

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© AJD, Geograph. CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mystery at Compton Wynyates Allan Fea

The Tudor mansion of Compton Wynyates is full of secrets and puzzles, some macabre, some downright peculiar.

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