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International Relations

A Credit to His Country

The diplomat’s task is to see the best in other peoples, not to scold them for their failings.

Length: 111 words

Extracts from Poetry

What’s in a Name?

Juliet complains that the man she loves has the wrong name, and the man she loves hears her doing it.

Length: 111 words

Extracts from Fiction

The Hare and Many Friends

John Gay reflects that in matters of friendship, quality is preferable to quantity.

Length: 117 words

Extracts from Poetry

The Beggar’s Petition

A destitute and friendless farmer, turned from the tradesman’s entrance, tries his luck at the front door.

Length: 120 words

Extracts from Fiction

An Unlikely Heroine

When she was ten, Catherine Morland showed none of the qualities needed to impress the ladies who read romantic fiction.

Length: 112 words

Extracts from Fiction

Koré

Sir Edward Leithen finds himself revising his opinion of the ‘detestable’ Koré Arabin.

Length: 119 words