Childe Harold's Pilgrimage to the Dead Sea: Death on the Pale Horse: and other poems.

Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored." Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.

There are now 65,000 titles available (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such as Dickens,

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