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'Shall I betray my best friend...? He is all that I have in the world. He saved me from the bear when its claws were already at my throat. We have suffered hunger and cold together. He covered me with his own garments while I was ill. I have brought him wood and water. I…

Start the New Year with great book recommendations! Heritage Foundation experts share their top picks, from dystopian fiction to politics.

What’s the last great book you read? “A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States,” by Frederick Law Olmsted. Also note: “The Life of George Brummell, Esq.,…

Dickens’s unprecedented celebrity made him the most popular novelist of his century—but the author of Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, and dozens of other works was more than just a writer.

Five-star hotel Chewton Glen on the edge of the New Forest has been named Rural Hotel of the Year in the 2023 Food and Travel Readers Awards

Five-star hotel Chewton Glen on the edge of the New Forest has been named Rural Hotel of the Year in the 2023 Food and Travel Readers Awards

LibriVox

This week, we feature a quick-fix grammar guide, children’s stories to warm the heart, and a timely analysis ...

“S. lkqo. C. hgo & Tatty.” It’s gibberish to you, but not to Captain Richard Collinson.

Fear of Dutch sea captains, Cape of Good Hope deadly currents and weather, seamen superstitions The Flying Dutchman legend was born in South Africa.