A rare first edition of 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkien has fetched USD 57,000 at auction in in Southwest England. Details ...

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The Bible holds the Guinness World Record for best-selling book, with an estimated 5 to 7 billion copies sold.

N.C. Wyeth’s colossal 1932 mural, “Apotheosis of the Family,” re-emerges in a gleaming new round barn after years in storage.

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Eighty years after George Orwell's biting political satire exposed the horrors of life in the Soviet Union, there is still ...