All posts tagged "novel"
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4.5KbostonSix Fun Facts About Henry Adams
Henry Adams during his lifetime was known as a snob and a grouch. He was, after all, an Adams, the grandson and...
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3.7KArts and LeisureSeven Fun Facts About E.E. Cummings
Many school kids have a special affinity for e.e. cummings, who wrote about the circus and got away with funky punctuation, made-up...
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4.8KConnecticutThe Brahmin Rough Riders of New England
Some people believe that the Rough Riders were almost all cowboys from out West. After all, it had earned the nickname “The...
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13.6K2Crime and ScandalRoyall Tyler, the Man Nabby Adams Wanted To Marry
John Adams’ daughter in 1785 dumped the charming rake Royall Tyler to marry a dashing military hero. She may well have regretted...
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7.6K5Arts and LeisureEdith Wharton Invites That Awful F. Scott Fitzgerald to Tea
Edith Wharton belonged to the old-money, upper-crust New York society to which F. Scott Fitzgerald aspired. Wharton, like the much younger Fitzgerald,...
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5.8K7Arts and LeisureJohn Updike in ‘Couples’ Titillated America With Tales of his Neighbors
In 1968, John Updike blew the cover off a high-living, raucous little group of people in Ipswich, Mass., with the publication of...
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