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Please email me for further information. To reach the post office, walk farther down the street. Further, fartherโฆ Whatโs the difference? Is it just two different spellings of the same word? The answer is yesโand no. Please read on for some explanation. Both โfurtherโ and โfartherโ are irregular comparative forms of the same adjective (and …
Charles Turner Dazey was an American writer and playwright born in Lima, Illinois, in 1855. He wrote a number of successful plays, also leaving a mark in the early film history as a writer of numerous silent films. He died in Quincy in 1938; sadly, his works quickly became forgotten. Charles T. Dazey I chose …
Although I've been intrigued for a long time, I kept avoiding Capote, confident that I'd dislike his writing as much as I dislike what I'd known were his usual themes: socialites, jet set shenanigans, and the sort of debauchery appealing to bored-out-of-their-minds nouveaux riches. And Answered Prayers is precisely one such book.
At the very beginning of this yearโs Lenten season, weโre going to read a short poem by Christina Rossetti (1830โ1894), the celebrated English poet and writer of devotional literature. Her two-part poem โAsh Wednesdayโ brings into focus the meaning of this important day in the church calendar. The poem is simple, but it's not exactly …
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