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It was said that shelters had proliferated in a short space of time ... they began to move. This story appears in Voices of the Fallen Heroes by Yukio Mishima (Penguin Classics, £14.99), which ...

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A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man who is visited by ghosts around Christmas time. Macbeth Macbeth by William Shakespeare ...

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