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Own a Piece of History
Charles Dickens' summer house is up for sale. Two million pounds will get you ownership of "Bleak House" in Broadstairs, Kent, in the UK. The house is not actually the model for the novel Bleak House, the novel, but Dickens did write David Copperfield while staying in the seaside manor.The estate agent's listing for the … Continue reading Own a Piece of History
Stranger Than Fiction
A Greek prodigy (he was admitted to Columbia University when he was only 15) has penned a very unusual and very successful graphic novel. Apostolos Doxiadis has written Logicomix, which tells the life of Bertrand Russel, mathematician, philosopher, and Nobel Prize laureate for literature. The book has been a bestseller in Doxiadis' homeland and translations … Continue reading Stranger Than Fiction
Musings from Magers and Quinn 