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Plutarch’s portrayal of parallel lives is the paradigm James Grant pursues in his dynamic dual biography of Edmund Burke and Charles Fox, two politicians and orators of markedly different ...

Plutarch’s parallel lives have long been a model for many biographers because of the way he pairs his subjects, using one figure to illuminate another in a series of character studies that remain ...

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is the latest buzz-worthy installment in both the Suzanne Collins book series and the film franchise. The story is a prequel to the original series and focuses ...

The Translation called Dryden’s. Corrected from the Greek, and Revised, by A. H. CLOUGH, sometime Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College, Oxford, and late Professor of the English Language and Literature ...