Out of the frying pan into the fire
The Peloponnesian War
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Vilified for recording the wrong truth
Censorship of Historical Thought
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Murder, intrigue and the weather
My Heart is My Own
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The Rumsfeld view of comparative lit.
Death of a Discipline
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Challenged to find God in the novel
The Oxford English Literary History
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Is this spondulix I see before me?
In Search of Shakespeare - Shakespearean Afterlives
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Material vision in the rural romance
John Clare
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Alien ideas of a quirky artisan out of step with his time
William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s
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A good eye for the pity of the 7th hell
Wilfred Owen
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Enticing fruits of many minds
The Oxford English Literary History
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Was red Ken's idea truly capital?
Urban Road Pricing
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Hunger and illness in a fertile field
So Shall We Reap
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Provoke the beast and create a very nasty atmosphere
The Discovery of Global Warming
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a story of three generations: "At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord...