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New historical fiction probes crises of golden age Rome
In ?Young Master? (ISBN 1470091054), notable for its dispassionate, matter-of-fact...
James Wood: Hilary Mantel?s ?Bring Up the Bodies? and Thomas Cromwell.
Anthony Powell, in wise-facetious mood, once quoted an English publisher on how to write ?a good Jewish novel?: write a good novel, then change all the names to Jewish ones. The joke came to mind while I was reading Hilary Mantel?s ?Bring Up the . . .
Was Lenin poisoned?
Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, seen here on his deathbed in 1924, suffered a debilitating series of strokes at the age of 53 ? and forensic researchers say there's a possibility he was poisoned as well. But syphilis doesn't appear to have been a factor, despite the rumors at the time.
 
 
 
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