Plagiarism: in the words of someone else… there’s little new in literature
A bitter, escalating row over plagiarism engulfed two French novelists last week. But artistic theft has been provoking anger, jealousy and insults since Roman times
When the French novelist Camille Laurens lost her son in childbirth in 1995, she responded with a moving account of [...]

The web now hosts many sites where you can download and read out of copyright books for free. Project Gutenberg is perhaps the best known of these sites. Go into your normal book retailer and browse their shelves chances are that you’ll find copies of classics like Penguin do a great line in Popular Classics. [...]