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Quail not

In the 1950s Louis Golding loosely followed the footsteps of Odysseus in a quest to reach Ithaca after three decades...

Likening conversation to ‘thick black coffee’ which you might have on the table in front of you, and you might...

These fine-minded sisters come into an inheritance adequate to free them from having to face the economic implications of remaining...

A fine selection of subjects to talk about with a new acquaintance. This is the boy’s first (and last) encounter...

Rory Stewart's father could be pithy, taciturn, and funny (without necessarily trying to be). Here his son tries to open...

A delightful exchange between the boy György Faludy, and a friend, or at least acquaintance, of his grandfather's. I loved...

A young man in love learns a lesson in the limitations of egotism. 'She' is Maggie Tulliver, a beautiful human...

John Donne describes an accomplished woman with a wide-ranging capacity to converse intelligently. I like the spectrum he chose: predestination...