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After Nurturing Novels, Poems and Revolution, the Round Reading Room Reaches THE END

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19971027
Author:Dan Balz

It was home to Marx and Lenin, W.B. Yeats and G.B. Shaw, a soaring cathedral of scholarship that nurtured and inspired the infamous and the anonymous for 140 years. William Makepeace Thackeray, who had seen the great domes of St. Peter's in Rome and St. Paul's in London, said nothing in the world could compare with "that catholic dome in Bloomsbury."

On Saturday, the grand Round Reading Room in the British Museum closed its doors to scholars for the last time. A magisterial room that created so much history finally passed into history itself.

Audrey Eiffe sat at seat LL6 attempting to ...

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