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Explain what makes a good mystery story, based on your understanding of 'The Red Room' by H.G. Wells The Red Room by H. G. Wells
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Original Writing Poetry Getting Older
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Right at the end of the Green Acre Forest, there lived a small family of two, a mother and her daughter.
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Why does the future world that the Time Traveller travels to exemplify the fears of a Victorian person coming true?
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