My influencers

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How Chaucer reshaped English poetry

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Her son had come to a decision, but had he thought it through?

I WAS only five when Elaine first came into my life. She was tall and dark skinned, with a perfume that smelled of roses and big necklaces in bright colours that bounced as she laughed. Whenever my da

Mark Twain and the making of an American literary revolution