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This is not competition-linked but a question from my daughter who wishes to know the most chapters that have ever been written in a book (prob. novel). I have tried to look this up through...
how dies a sculpture correct a mistake on a piece of work he is creating?, i would assume sculpters have to be very careful with very little margin for error, especially on intricate details like a...
Can anyone please identify the novel with this last line? : And I with my books have not seen him since. It was like saying goodbye to a big part of me, for ever.
English writer having the best of times said: "My eyes ached and my head grew giddy as novelty, novelty, novelty, nothing but strange and striking things came swarming before me."...
When my girls are older, I hope they read Jane Austen, the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and Trollope, but what books would similarly 'pushy mums' have encouraged their children to read before these...
which golden age crime writer named her detective after the founder of a South London Public School whose picture gallery she had visited the day before starting her first book
Can anyone pleas identify the plays with these openings? : 1. Go on....(reading)Lady Isabel humbly crossed her attenuated hands upon her chest. 2. You wretched man Henry. You wretched man Henry.
Can anyone recommend a book in a similar vein to this? Or does anyone have anything to say about it? I've just finished it and was almost in tears, which is saying something. Very moving book, I'd...