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  2. Emma Brooke - Wikipedia

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    The Heir Without a Heritage (1887) A Superfluous Woman (1894) [2] Transition: A Novel (1895) [6] Life the Accuser (1896) The Confession of Stephen Whapshare (1898) The Engrafted Rose (1899) The Twins of Skirlaugh Hall (1903) The Poet's Child (1903) Susan Wooed and Susan Won (1905) Sir Elyot of the Woods (1907) The Story of Hauksgarth Farm (1909)

  3. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    The full line goes: "And every mother's child is gonna spy, to see if reindeer really know how to fly". One can furthermore argue that the word "mother" is included for the purpose of lyrical flow, adding two syllables, which make the line sound complete, as "every child" would be too short to fit the lyrical/rhyme scheme.)

  4. What If? (essays) - Wikipedia

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    The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, is an anthology of twenty essays and fourteen sidebars dealing with counterfactual history. It was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1999, ISBN 0-399-14576-1, and this book as well as its two sequels, What If? 2 and What Ifs? of American History, were edited by Robert Cowley.

  5. A Modest Proposal - Wikipedia

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    A painting of Jonathan Swift. Swift's essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of English literature.Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states: "A young healthy child ...

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  7. The Women (Hannah novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Women is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah published by St. Martin's Press in 2024. The book tells the story of Frances "Frankie" McGrath, a young nurse who serves in the United States Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. [1] [2] The novel debuted at number one on The New York Times fiction best-seller list.

  8. Herstory - Wikipedia

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    Herstory is a term for history written from a feminist perspective and emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view. It originated as an alteration of the word " history ", as part of a feminist critique of conventional historiography , which in their opinion is traditionally written as "his story", i.e., from the male ...

  9. Superfluous - Wikipedia

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    Superfluous means unnecessary or excessive. It may also refer to: Superfluous precision, the use of calculated measurements beyond significant figures; The Diary of a Superfluous Man, an 1850 novella by Russian author Ivan Turgenev; Superfluous man, a Russian archetype inspired by the above novella