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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Cormac McCarthy

Many critics describe Blood Meridian as one of the most important novels of the 20th century. It is a revisionist Western in which McCarthy explores the era after the Mexican-American War. During this time, vigilante, mercenary gangs patrolled the...

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The Odyssey Homer

Most likely written between 750 and 650 B.C., The Odyssey is an epic poem about the wanderings of the Greek hero Odysseus following his victory in the Trojan War (which, if it did indeed take place, occurred in the 12th-century B.C. in Mycenaean...

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Why did the gentleman disapprove of having pictures of horses as wallpapers?

Gradgrind tells his students at his school that wallpaper with horses on it is unrealistic because horses do not in fact live on walls,

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Sissy preserved the "nine oils", believing that her father would one day return.

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why does louisa agree to marry mr bounderby?

Louisa consents to marriage with Bounderby because her brother Tom encourages it. Tom tells Louisa that if she marries Bounderby they'll be living under the same roof again, and that through their marriage he might gain a bit more freedom from...

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