Dr Paul Pettitt, a senior lecturer in Palaeolithic Archaeology at Sheffield University, has written a narrative to accompany the stamp series.

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"Beowulf, " the original action-adventure yarn -- it's the oldest epic narrative verse written in the English language, dating back to the eighth century -- has been spiked with enough risque business and healthy splatterings of gore to make it unsuitable for kids (the rating is PG-13).

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Written as as first-person narrative, Rum Diary chronicles a sweaty, perpetually drunken summer spent by one Paul Kemp in Puerto Rico during the 1950s.

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Maktoob made a certain sense to me, for I had long wished to see the story of what befell me written down, formed into a coherent narrative.

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Tomorrow's history is being written today, and we can all help shape the narrative.

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Then, in 1960, a notebook was found containing another Essex narrative, parallel with Owen Chase's, written by Thomas Nickerson, cabin boy on the ship and a crew member of Chase's castaway boat.

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The acting is uniformly good, a fact that helps Midnight's Children paper over some of the inevitable creases caused by the need for narrative ellipsis to capture the sweep and spectrum of the written text.

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The intertwining plots and narrative elements of the original novel, including extracts from a book written by one of the characters and a second story about pirates within the story, meant deciding what to include and exclude would be a complicated exercise.

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"Strange Rebels, " though engagingly written, is occasionally repetitive, and Mr. Caryl's effort to craft a coherent narrative out of a series of disparate and chaotic events is at times a bit forced.

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