Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Extracts from Fiction’
By Vasily Vereshchagin, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
It was the opinion of Leo Tolstoy that even Napoleon was never master of his own destiny.
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The brilliant but dangerously obsessive Dr Griffin decides that the end justifies the means.
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Louisa Musgrove thought she had hit on a sure method of winning Captain Wentworth’s affections.
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High above the roof of the Amazonian rainforest, Professor Challenger sees something that eerily reminds him of home.
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Sam felt that his epic romance might have started more promisingly.
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Lady Glencora scolds the Earl of Brentford for political inactivity, but he warns her to be careful what she wishes for.