culture. education. literary studies.
R. L. Stevenson's poem โSummer Sunโ was first published in 1885, as part of his collection titled A Childโs Garden of Verses. In it, the poet personifies the Sun, presenting him as โthe gardener of the Worldโ โ a kind presence that brings life, warmth, and gladness to all living things.
Iโm happy to present another title in the Grammaticus Free Library series: โSquirrelโ by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. The PDF comes with vocabulary notes and a grammar exercise on non-standard, dialectal forms used by the author.
A mistake I often hear in conversation classes has to do with the choice of preposition before the nouns 'beginning' and 'end'. Did something something happen โin the beginningโ or โat the beginningโ? And what happened โin the endโ? Or is it โat the endโ?
It's the spring equinox and the time for another quarterly ebook. This time it's "Departure" - a short story by Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), American novelist and short story writer best known for his book " Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life."
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