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“... forest, so that ‘something told me I was looking on either the boy’s innermost life or on some former life of his,’ James was embarrassed and angered by the platonic eroticism of the book and broke off the relationship in a panic. Edmund Gosse was not disturbed. He detected the pain in Reid’s isolation and added that ‘for people too obstinately ...”

“... was surely due to his occupying a regional middle way. Born in Scotland, a student at Oxford, a pupil barrister at Lincoln’s Inn, he was also the MP for Sedgefield in the industrial north. The regional fractures within the UK merit more attention and imaginative organisational expression. In the future, and whether the Union survives or not, there could ...”

“... he chose to read for two degrees – one in mathematics, the other in literature – and as a star pupil of the regime, was awarded a Stalin Prize. It even appears that a film was made about him. But private life was subordinated to public ambition: his courtship of fellow student Natalya Reshetovskaya could only begin on the stroke of ten when the library ...”

“... loyalty. In October 1905 Attlee and his brother Laurence – out of a sense of duty to their former school – visited the Haileybury Club in working-class Stepney, where local teenage boys were drilled by Old Haileyburians as part of a cadet battalion. He was soon making regular visits to the club, and in the spring of 1906 became a 2nd lieutenant in ...”

“... and lengthy medical treatment show. This was administered behind closed doors by her mother, a former nurse. The evidence comes from interviews with her younger brother, who remembered her screams but at the time knew nothing of the reason. That was 1914: no antibiotics, no penicillin; nothing but repeated, painful and prolonged application of harsh ...”

“... It was undoubtedly a most inspiriting message. It worked partly because Leavis (and his wife, his former Girton pupil Queenie Roth) were splendid rhetoricians. It is nonsense to suggest that Leavis could not write. The prose of his lectures and essays could be as trenchant as that of his contemporary Orwell, especially when ...”

“... had been thinking about silence from an early age. In 1928, as a geeky 16-year-old high-school pupil in LA, he won the Southern California Oratorical Contest with a speech on Pan-American relations entitled ‘Other People Think’. It ran: One of the greatest blessings that the United States could receive in the near future would be to have her ...”

“... by deception, and one offence of fraud by false representation. A week later, the school’s former director of finance, Daud Khan, and Shabana Hussain, Raza’s sister and a former head of department, were also charged. Concerns had been raised about the school’s finances by anonymous whistleblowers. An ...”

“... all Europeans with any taste for the visual arts could call it to mind. Northcote, who had been a pupil of Reynolds and remembered the conversation of Reynolds’s friends, reported that Garrick used to say of this picture ‘that the Saint resembled a satyr, and that the child was like a monkey’. But, Northcote added, ‘there is such a look of life in the ...”

“... Armageddon novel nudges its way into these less assertive pages through Tom Crick’s favourite pupil Price. Price is in trouble, like his master, because he has formed a club which insists that the point of history is that it is about to come to a stop:   ‘You know what your trouble is, sir? You’re hooked on ...”

“... picked up prostitutes, to embarrass them into admitting fault immediately. The Ramblin’ Man, a former cop who staged more than 150 crashes in Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee, dealt almost exclusively in getting rammed by elderly drivers changing lanes. To blunt the impact, the squat-car’s trunk is often stuffed with tyres, sandbags or both. But since ...”

“... to defend, one which came to a premature and disastrous end when she lost her temper with a pupil and beat her so badly about the head that the girl lost her hearing. Over time, she comes to regret this and goes to the girl’s family to apologise. She even considers paying an ENT surgeon to repair the damage, but ends up spending the money on beauty ...”

“... his first term after running a populist campaign against Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president who for many epitomised the regime’s worst features – nepotism, cronyism and financial corruption. He enjoyed the support of Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, who shared his deep distrust of the West and probably his ambition to pursue ...”

“... and pointed to the conclusion later elaborated by Dr Bammel, who was in fact Stauffer’s pupil and his co-researcher after the war. Stauffer’s work is full of blunders, some of which were pointed out by Paul Winter, and he cannot be regarded as objective in this matter, given his well-documented pro-Nazi record before and during the war (see Ernst ...”

“... killed. But the real turn of the narrative comes with the favourite’s belated conversion by her former slave’s example: having begun her life in the harem by feverishly aspiring to please one man, only to fall passionately in love with another, she ends by longing for the death that would reunite her with her ‘beloved’ slave. The man who brought the ...”