Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1423

The Caucus Race

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

1424

King Henry II

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

1425

‘The marriage cannot go on!’

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

1426

The Peculiar Customs of Lilliput

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

1427

‘There is a Tide in the Affairs of Men’

Brutus tells Cassius to act while everything is going his way, or be left with nothing but regrets.

1428

The Adoration of the Magi

Persian star-gazers hasten to Israel for the birth of a royal heir, but find that King Herod has had his fill of them.