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“’Liked as much!’”, “For goodness’ sakes, all your need is to like someone enough. Life isn’t a Jane Austen novel. It’s one thing to be long-suffering in a story, where the auth...

When I watch the tiny goslings struggling, making their haphazard way, lost in the tall grass, down to the dam, and when I see the small courageous bodies of my grandsons splash...

“The dream, sir, was mine! I lay down on purpose to dream it.” “His spell and Ormskirk’s are equally bad; there is not a pin to choose between them.” “The same handful of tunes ...

“Upon the contrary Laurence Strange congratulated himself on avoiding paying for the boy’s food and clothes for months at a time. So may a love of money make an intelligent man ...

What a delight to read! It is more than good English; it is the power why we fall in love with a language. Oh, and what excellent “footnotes” have been cited! “Childermass was o...

The Agatha Christie Code. Agatha Christie’s grey cells mystery The mystery behind Agatha Christie’s enduring popularity may have been solved by three leading universities collab...

Obsession is dangerous; obsession kills. “Angier painfully mutters that Cutter was right about the double all along, but that his own suspicions had kept him from believing the ...

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun   is the most famous female painter in the 18th century in Europe. Click here to read more about her. The legendary queen of Louis XI, Marie ...