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L.S. Hilton's Maestra is a spectacular act of revenge on the English upper class and on men
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The posthumous publication of Aeneid VI is a katabasis for Heaney's father
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Is language just a tool, or can it be an end as well as a means?
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What was it like to be wined and dined by Jeremy Thorpe?
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