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Lisa Taddeo • Three Women: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Woodston, it is implied, is where Henry is the incumbent local clergyman. The reason, confirmed later, he can still make Northanger half his home, and spend many weeks in Bath, is that he has a curate, a clergyman hired by the incumbent to perform some or all of the work in the parish. Many clergymen hired curates, in part because the abundance of
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one final choice:
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
John Barton reminds us that nowhere in the Hebrew texts themselves do they
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.’
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
John Wycliffe (c.1330–84) argued that the Church should surrender its riches, serve rather than profit from the poor and acknowledge scripture as its sole source of doctrinal authority.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
‘You’re our longest-serving contributor,’ said Carleton, flinching at the bang. ‘Our most admired. Indeed I should say our most popular.’ I’m beginning to speak like him, he thought: Thomas Hart is catching, that’s the trouble. ‘I’ve often heard it said that it’s a consolation – that’s the general feeling, as I said to the board – to wake on Thursd
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