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The British Library’s major exhibition, ‘Breaking the Rules:The Printed Face of the  European Avant Garde 1900-1937′ explores the creative transformation which took place in Europe during the first four decades of the 20th century - a revolution which encompassed visual art, design, photograph

“One of the greatest lithographic works ever printed.”Out of the romance of Napoleon’s ill-fated 1798 adventure in Egypt and Lord Byron’s Eastern travels, memorialized in his exotic poetry, came a fascination for the Near East and the places of scripture and revelation

“But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way,in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest,a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.”- A.A. MilneTrapped indoors during a rainy holiday in Wales, writer and editor A.A. Milne turned his

“The experiences of his five years in the Beagle, how he dealt with them, and what they led to, built up into a process of epoch-making importance in the history of thought.”The son of a well-to-do country doctor, Darwin finished at Cambridge with an unexceptional record, anticipa

“In accuracy, thoroughness, lucidity, and comprehensive grasp of a vast subject, the Decline and Fall is unsurpassable.” (DNB)“It was at Rome,” Gibbon writes, “on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fri

“No equal in American Literature.” (DAB)On a cold day in 1853, one of the most disastrous blazes in the history of New York City lit up the darkness of Pearl Street. Accidently ignited by a plumber, the fire claimed the publishing headquarters of Harper & Brothers, destroying