Possibly the most colourful figure in the history of Western music, Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was certainly the most eloquent....

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The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment as in no other period and the crowning achievement of that caustic,...

Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and...

Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but...

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Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious)...

Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the...

'America was never innocent.'

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