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Enjoy the Great Court, Europe's largest covered square, which is bigger than a foot-
ball field. This people-friendly court—delightfully spared from the London rain—was for
150 years one of London's great lost spaces...closed off and gathering dust. Since the year
2000, it's been the 140-foot-wide hub of a two-acre cultural complex.
The stately Reading Room now hosts special exhibitions, but in years past, it was a
study hall for Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, T. S. Eliot, Virginia
Woolf, W. B. Yeats, Mark Twain, and V. I. Lenin. Karl Marx formulated his ideas on com-
munism and wrote Das Kapital here.
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