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MICHAEL WOOD ON…

“From Beatles lyrics to Hindu scripture, translation is a true library of the world”

MET UP WITH A CHINESE FRIEND THE OTHER day at the British Library. What better place to reflect on human history as told through its literature? From Michelangelo and Leonardo, to the Ma'il Qur'an and the ; from Jane Austen and George Orwell to Andrea Levy; from Beatles lyrics to Chinese oracle bones from

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