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Can one man change the course of a world war? From 1941, working from rooms over a Cairo brothel, British officer Dudley Clarke conceived a new way of fighting the Nazis: using the tools of the mind. Deception in war isn’t a new idea, but this eccentric colonel realized that global conflict offered the chance[…]

Middlemarch is a novel that is set in a provincial town in England in the years leading up to the Reform Act of 1832, which broadly increased voting rights in Britain (but women still could not vote). Middlemarch deals with many themes, including “the woman question” and the nature of marriage, as well as religion[…]

George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair.  He was a novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic. His memoir Homage to Catalonia recounts his participation in the forces of the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) during th Spanish Civil War and his consequent disillusionment with Marxist politics.  In 1945, Orwell wrote Animal Farm:[…]

Geoffrey Chaucer was the author of the Canterbury Tales, which is an anthology of 24 short stories that are supposedly being told by people who are traveling from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.  The Canterbury Tales were mostly in verse and were written in Middle English.[…]

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