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					<description><![CDATA[Halfway through the first volume of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Edward Gibbon took up the case of Zenobia, the famous queen of the Syrian city of Palmyra. “Modern Europe has produced several]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Conjurer of Worlds</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[During preproduction of The Lord of the Rings, the hugely successful film trilogy, director Peter Jackson gave a speech to the members of the design team. He asked them to make believe that J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel about hobbits and wizards]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Egoist</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Think twice before learning too much about your literary heroes. That is the lesson of Lance Richardson’s engrossing life of Peter Matthiessen (1927–2014), the globetrotting, Zen-minded author]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Portrait of the Scholar</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Does biography illuminate the work of an artist? James Joyce slyly poked at this age-old question in his 1922 novel Ulysses. In one of the book’s many meandering scenes, Stephen Dedalus and a group of literary associates banter]]></description>
		
		
		
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