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The Death of Stalin
Film satirising the chaos, panic, and political machinations during the power transition after Stalin's death. It mocks the fear and sycophancy surrounding Stalin's cult of personality in the USSR
The frantic conception that my brother was within, that the resistance made to my design was exerted by him, had rooted itself in my mind.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
Mrs. Micawber was quite as elastic. I have known her to be thrown into fainting fits by the king's taxes at three o'clock, and to eat lamb chops, breaded, and drink warm ale (paid for with two tea-spoons that had gone to the pawnbroker's) at four.
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
Vladimir Nabokov • Laughter in the Dark (Vintage International)
Even the Mughal gardens were uprooted and replaced with sterile English lawns. In the place of the marble fantasies they tore down, the British erected some of the most crushingly ugly buildings ever thrown up by the British Empire - a set of barracks that look as if they have been modelled on Wormwood Scrubs. The barracks should have been torn dow
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Mike Minahan • 1 card
