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22 Oct 2014:
From Roman legions to medieval mayhem, Cavaliers and Roundheads to the crushing of ideals in the 20th century, there is fertile ground for drama in civil war, writes Robert Wilton
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4 Aug 2014:
Imogen Russell Williams: With high adventure, derring-do and thrills to keep the drowsiest sunbather awake, this is perfect holiday reading
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7 May 2014:
From Othello to Oscar Wilde - four readers explain why books mean so much to people in jail, and name the books that helped them to survive it
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12 Mar 2014:
From the Wizard of Oz to Tom Ripley, novelist Stephen May unmasks literature's most compelling pretenders
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3 Feb 2014:
Fleet of foot and sharp with his weapon, D'Artagnan takes the gold medal for his TV sabre-rattling, writes fencing champion Karim Bashir
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28 Jan 2014:
Stuart Jeffries: Certain viewers are non-plussed by the casting of a musketeer of colour, but surely blind casting is preferable to an historical whitewash
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21 Jan 2014: Stuart Heritage: New BBC1 series The Musketeers offers a prettified take on Dumas's novel, but in previous years, the the swashbuckling quartet have reached the screen as trucks, cyborg and, of course, dogs. Which version is the winner?
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17 Jan 2014: John Dugdale: The BBC's adaptation of The Three Musketeers departs strikingly from the original, with its 23-year-old D'Artagnan, its Made In Chelsea lookalike and its pistols, but such liberty-taking ignores Dumas's influence as a seminal historical novelist
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27 Dec 2013:
Actor renowned for role of ruthless spin doctor Malcolm Tucker to play Cardinal Richelieu in adaptation of Dumas classic book
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26 Oct 2012:
There's a huge appetite for reading biographies, and thousands are written each year. But is it still a relevant kind of writing? Three authors tell us their Life stories
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25 Apr 2012:
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 25 April 1890: Living on the eve of the golden age of playwrights, Watts Phillips was in a state of want for the greater number of his days
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23 Dec 2011: From William Shakespeare's Pandulph to Hilary Mantel's Wolsey, John Mullan picks some of the most memorable cardinals in literature. Who have we missed?
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20 Oct 2011:
Alex von Tunzelmann: This Dumas adaptation drags French history kicking and screaming into the town square
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16 Oct 2011:
Alexandre Dumas's Three Musketeers has been made into numerous films, but this is the worst, writes Philip French
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8 Dec 2010: Chris Hannan's brilliant version of the Alexandre Dumas stories The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain may be some way from child-friendly – it's rude, anarchic, witty, intelligent, irreligious and coarse, writes Mark Fisher
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