In the year of our Lord 1760, a plucky university student named Rudolf Erich Raspe…
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There are many tales of people achieving all sorts of fortune and fame by selling…
The works of James Joyce — particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake — are almost universally…
Imagine that you’re in charge of sending a culture-bearing probe off into space; one capable…
By Arnaldo Teodorani Many of us have grown reading his tales on self-destruction, revenge and…
It’s likely that you’ve already heard of Coco Chanel either from her famous perfume, or…
Vincent van Gogh was one of the greatest artists of all time, but he just…
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He is revered as one of the greatest artists of all time. For centuries he…
Known as ‘the father of modern fantasy’ his epic tales of legend and lore have…
Christopher Lee is most familiar to the world as a consummate actor with a deep,…
For eleven years he hosted one of the most popular art shows on television –…