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Dear friends and followers of the Grammaticus blog, I am very happy to present the fourth title in my series of Grammaticus Free Library ebooks, designed primarily for English language learners (levels C1/C2), and all lovers of good literature. This one contains a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 'The Minister's Black Veil'. First published in …
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"We translate more easily than we know our gratitude to God into our admiration of ourselves." Hugh Walpoleโs 1922 novel The Cathedral is one of the best works of this, now sadly and unjustly neglected, author. Regular readers of the Grammaticus blog hopefully havenโt missed the December 2022 release of his short ghost story The …
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Originally published in 1846, Life is a three-stanza poem by the eldest of the famous Brontรซ sisters, Charlotte. It appeared in their first, self-published, collection of works whichโunpromisinglyโsold only two copies. However, only a year later Charlotte managed to get her novel Jane Eyre published, and the rest is history, as they say. Charlotte Brontรซ …
John Henry Newman was one of the intellectual giants of the Victorian era. Born in London in 1801, he led a long life filled with intellectual curiosity and deep concern with matters of faith. Originally an Anglican priest and theologian based in Oxford, he famously converted to Roman Catholicism in 1845, continuing his ministry as a …
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