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Bookshelf: The Thousand Names

I recently read Lytton Strachey’s catty and interesting Eminent Victorians.  During the fourth of his vignettes in particular, the biography of Chinese Gordon ending in Gordon’s ill-starred standoff with Her Majesty’s government and eventual martyrdom at the hands of the … Continue reading

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