I do this by looking for houses with no lights on in the evening. Then I look at doorways. They’re a sure giveaway(暴露). When newspapers, mail, and deliveries are piled up, I can tell that people have been away from days. I can even count how many days from the number of ...
【4】The last paragraph mainly tells us ___.A.libraries have played an important role in Americans’ educationB.public libraries in the US should never close the doorsC.the writer doesn’t agree with Benjamin FranklinD.libraries help people to open the doors of wisdom【5】The best title fo...
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She wasn’t the only woman writer with a hard and short life: O’Connor, Sewell, the Bronte sisters and Elizabeth Barrett Browning had something powerful, a personal conviction that is reflected in their writing and that clearly gave them strength in a hopeless situation of ever worsening ...
Well, this was the message we took away with us from that evening. Tim talked about how pursuing personal happiness is always chasing moving goalposts. We think that if we get that promotion, lose those ten pounds, buy that new thing, that we’ll be there, we’ll have made it, we’...
Rose fits the bill. A retired English professor, she is the author of popular biographies of Virginia Woolf and Josephine Baker, as well as “The Year of Reading Proust” (1997), a memoir of her family life and the manners and mores of the Key West literary scene. Her best book is “...
Here, in the first half of#1000wordsofsummer, I have desperately been trying to find the click for my novel. I’ve been working on this novel, which started out as a memoir, for three years now. It may or may not have been what broke me in the first summer of the pandemic.** ...
It’s hard to get past the first paragraph of Orlando. In fact, you can’t actually “get past” the first line of Orlando, and neither can I. Whatever Woolf intends (a misguided attempt at a feminist critique of colonial masculinity is the most generous reading), her exalted prose style...
strength.Every Friday,DeLuca would drive around and hand-deliver the checks to pay their suppliers.“It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn’t necessary,but as a result,the suppliers got to know me very well,and the personal relationships established really helped out,” ...
We hear about him first from the village inhabitants: the Tinkers; Peter Duart, a landed gentleman who cleans windows by choice; Peter’s French wife Shefaline; the postal clerk Mrs. Crawford; Steve’ s distant relative Mrs. McPhealy, who will rent him a room; the bartender Devin Ally...