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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1381

Pygmalion and Galatea

Pygmalion discovered that prudishness is not the same as purity.

1382

The Caucus Race

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

1383

King Henry II

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

1384

‘The marriage cannot go on!’

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

1385

The Peculiar Customs of Lilliput

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

1386

‘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.