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War looms in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and when Napoleon invades Russia in 1812 it forever changes those whose lives it engulfs. Although told o...

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Anne Elliot is persuaded to reject the love of her life, Captain Wentworth, when her good friend Lady Russell, hints that there is a better match t...

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In my job, when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It's 'live and let die'.British Secret Service agent Bond is sent to N...