literature
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In mid-April, I joined my friend Nancy in York, a city often mentioned in Yorkshire-based literature.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
According to the research, this interpretation has implications beyond literature.
From Science Daily • May 11, 2026
She was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2009 for fiction that chronicled the horrors of Ceaușescu’s totalitarianism, which lasted from 1965 to his overthrow and execution in 1989.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
“In most CCRCs, when you go down to the dining hall, half the people have walkers or canes. In the promotional literature, you don’t see that at all,” Horowitz said.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
Homer’s vigor and power of storytelling, the pretty fancies of Theocritus, the smart cynicism of Lucian, illustrate in their degree the course of Greek literature.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Vocabulary lists containing literature
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