CREON Before thou didst assume the helm of State, The sovereign of this land was Laius. OEDIPUS I heard as much, but never saw the man. CREON He fell; and now the god's command is plain: Punish his takers-off, whoe'er they be. OEDIPUS Where are they? Where in the wide world ...
Where did Mark Twain live? Where has Anne Rice lived? Where did John Updike live? Where does Rita Dove live? Where in Massachusetts did Emily Dickinson live? Where was Paul Laurence Dunbar born? Where did Louisa May Alcott live in boston?
When Mary and Abraham Lincoln moved into the White House in 1861, Mary was 42 years old, a time when women her age dressed in somber grays, dull browns, and boring blues. But not Mary Todd Lincoln. For her, expensive clothes were a mark of importance, of breeding. She proceeded to dr...
Then another brother died, and there were two that I knew. Then my acquaintances began to die, and the number continually grew. But it was not until I had sent one of my little children back to God, that I began to think I had a little interest there myself. A second, a third, ...
or at least chose not to immortalize theirs in what would become the womanly counterpart to Mark Twain’s classicHuckleberry Finn.Little Womenwas written at Orchard House, where Louisa lived with her family from 1858 to 1877. It’s also the home base of her fiction, with one wishful alterati...
More recently, 67 Dove Street was "a place of refuge and an office" for William Kennedy, author of the acclaimed Albany Cycle series. Kennedy's 1984 novelIronweed-- which is part of the series -- garnered him a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1984. Born in 1928 and still going strong,...
a美国著名的现实主义文学代表马克•吐温,凭借敏锐的洞察力和与生俱来的幽默感捕捉事物的真相和内涵。 The American famous realism literature represents Mark•Twain, relies on the keen insight and the born that way sense of humor capture thing truth and the connotation.[translate] ...
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