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The 100 best novels: No 4 – Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1748)
14 Oct 2013:Samuel Richardson's Clarissa comes fourth in our list of the best novels written in English. Robert McCrum on the appeal of this landmark work
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8 Sep 2014: Fitzgerald's jazz age masterpiece has become a tantalising metaphor for the eternal mystery of art, writes Robert McCrum
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29 Aug 2014:
Drawn to Horace by a mutual love of wine and poetry, Eyres celebrates the importance of poetry in an age that, like Horace's own, values money above all else
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1 Jun 2014:
Andy Miller's 12-month-long immersion in the classics renewed his zest for life – and produced an inimitable memoir, says Peter Conrad
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29 May 2014: Tolkien's version of the Old English epic, along with selections from his Oxford lectures and invented texts showcase a rare mix of linguistic scholarship and literary imagination, writes Michael Alexander
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25 May 2014:
This enjoyable, if sometimes wordy study of the Greek poet, is impassioned and wide-ranging, writes Ian Thomson
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5 Sep 2014: Billy Mills: The poet's passionate words have been reinterpreted with each modern age; now it is your turn to muse on moonlight and death -
26 Aug 2014: Reading group: The historian, novelist and expert on the classical age will be here to discuss Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy from 1pm on Friday 29 August. Post your questions now
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21 Aug 2014:
Reading group: Her protagonist is an imaginary hero, but he draws his power for the reader from the true history in which he is embedded
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18 Aug 2014:
EM Forster's most successful work is eerily prescient on the subject of empire, writes Robert McCrum
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16 Aug 2014:
Marcus Sedgwick: Mervyn Peake's gothic fantasy has never matched the success of JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Maybe it's just too good
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11 Aug 2014:
Alison Flood: As Victor Frankenstein gets a sex change and heads for YouTube, we track down the strangest literary adaptations of the genre-launching 1818 horror novel
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5 Aug 2014:
Sophie Baggott: Whether you're cleaning your teeth or planning a holiday, don't forget to visit the ancients' advice bureau
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Gallery (13 pictures),
27 Jul 2014:
Artist Peter Sis shares sketches from his beautiful homage to Antoine de Saint Exupéry: The Pilot and the Little Prince, which tells the moving life story of aviator, pioneer, war hero and author of the much-loved children's book The Little Prince
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Quiz,
16 Jul 2014:
Know your Tarka from your Wilbur? Test your skills in a quiz to celebrate the republishing of 20 timeless Puffin Book classics from Watership Down to Charlotte's Web
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7 Jul 2014: After four masterful novels, the career of the writer described as Australia's F Scott Fitzgerald mysteriously ended – only to be revived 40 years later, writes Gay Alcorn
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4 Jul 2014: Contemporary writers have a supernatural challenge on their hands when dabbling in the paranormal, says Joanna Briscoe
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28 Jun 2014:
Eggheads, oversexed women, chatty barbers – many of our jokes have their roots in antiquity. Mary Beard considers what makes us laugh
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27 Jun 2014:
Would we still be reading A Story of Two Cities, or The Small House on the Prairie? Give us your titles that didn't quite make it into the literary canon
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26 Jun 2014: A letter from John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift shows how London is still much the same, 300 years on
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13 Jun 2014:
Classicist Mary Beard follows in the (probable) footsteps of Aristotle on a new walking trail close to the philosopher's home town in northern Greece
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