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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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On Love’s Lips

William Shakespeare recalls how the love of his life once teased him to the brink of despair.

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Poet and Poacher

Literary rumour in the time of Queen Anne said that William Shakespeare owed his extraordinary career to a scurrilous ballad.

747

The Rests in Life’s Melody

A benevolent lecturer has to persuade a class of restless girls to stay inside on a rainy day.

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Will Adams

An Elizabethan mariner reaches Japan under terrible hardships, only to find himself under sentence of death at the hands of his fellow Europeans.

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Kim and the Art of Begging

A street urchin of Lahore takes it on himself to provide a naive Tibetan monk with a hot meal.

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The Assassination of Thomas Becket

Four knights thought they were helping their King, but they could not have made a greater mistake.