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“Over the following months, Ransome met Wilde’s two sons and his bibliographer, Walter Ledger, a member of the Royal Yachting Association whose invitation to a cruise was declined following news that he suffered episodes of homicidal mania.”
— Apr 22, 2023 11:40PM
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Hannah Cook
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It is wild to me that the person who wrote Swallows and Amazons interviewed Trotsky.
— Apr 24, 2023 07:34PM
Hannah Cook
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“As Lenin opened perhaps the most significant chapter in the history of twentieth-century politics, the Russian correspondent for the Daily News was at Fonthill, fishing for perch.”
— Apr 24, 2023 04:37PM
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He was blimmin right in the middle of the Russian revolution!
— Apr 24, 2023 03:26AM
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“Tyrkova told Lenin she had no wish to live in a Russia ruled by illiterate factory workers. Lenin, smiling coldly, had told her this was exactly why, when the Revolution came, she would be amongst the first to hang from a lamp post.”
— Apr 23, 2023 02:29AM
Hannah Cook
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“Immediately after the church wedding, he visited Ivy’s parents in Bournemouth, where Mr Walker coolly informed him that Mrs Walker was like a blowfly, ‘depositing - is it five million or only five hundred thousand? - poison germs wherever she sets her foot’.”
— Apr 22, 2023 09:43PM
