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The 100 greatest children's books

The dark side of Roald Dahl

By Hephzibah Anderson

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The most beloved French writer ever

By John Self
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Retelling India’s ancient myths

By Akanksha Singh
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The fiction that predicted space travel

By Hephzibah Anderson
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Game of Thrones

Literature’s long obsession with swords

By Quinn Hargitai
Imru’ al-Qais, an exiled poet-king, is credited as the originator of the ‘ruin poetry’ form – one of his poems is said to hang in the Kaaba at Mecca (Credit: The British Library)
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The ancient poems that explain today

By Paul Cooper
Chained library at Hereford Cathedral
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The ancient books under lock and key

Frankenstein (Credit: Rebecca Hendin)
Stories that shaped the world

The story that defines our fears

By Rebecca Laurence
Invisible Man (Credit: Rebecca Hendin)
Stories that shaped the world

The ultimate US novel about race

By Kenneth W Warren
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Stories that shaped the world

He took us on a tour of Hell

By Christian Blauvelt
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Stories that shaped the world

The poems that shaped Chinese thought

By Martin Kern
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Stories that shaped the world

The novel that redefined Latin America

By Felipe Restrepo Pombo
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Stories that shaped the world

The 100 stories that shaped the world

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Stories that shaped the world

The 10 stories that shaped the world

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Stories that shaped the world

The 100 world-shaping tales: who voted?

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Stories that shaped the world

The ancient ‘viral memes’ still with us

By Nilanjana S Roy