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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1135

Cuthbert and the Phantom Fire

The Northumbrian saint warned of an enemy who would stop at nothing to silence the good news.

1136

Marooned!

Jim Hawkins, on a remote desert island, has escaped pirates only to be caught by a shadowy figure among the trees.

1137

Britain’s Best Gift to India

Samuel Smiles reminds us that until we brought the railways to India, we had little to boast about as an imperial power.

1138

India’s First Railway

The opening of the Bombay to Thane line was the real beginning of British India.

1139

The History of Susannah

A young Jewish woman in ancient Babylon falls victim to a heartless conspiracy.

1140

The Battle of Flamborough Head

When captain Richard Pearson of the Royal Navy surrendered to American revolutionary John Paul Jones, Jones naturally assumed that meant he had won.