Monthly Archives: September 2007

For Authors : The Strangest Words that You can Find and Utilize

. Floccinaucinihilipilification – “the act or habit of estimating or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by deprecation”. Top 10 weirdest English words    With 29 letters, it is the longest non-technical word in the first edition … Continue reading

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First Incidents of the Zodiac Killer

The first incidents that were blamed on the soon to be infamous or famous “Zodiac Killer” was the shooting of two high school students o n December 27,1968. The Zodiac Killer soon came to be affiliated with these killings gruesome … Continue reading

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Wharton and Her Writings During the French First World War Periods

As it stands, Lee’s portrait , unique among all the other biographies that have appeared so far in its emphasis on Wharton the European eaile. Wharton not only allowed Italy, France and to a much lesser extent England m but … Continue reading

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Bay Area Zodiac Killer

Who and what was the Bay Area “Zodiac Killer”. The Zodiac Killer was a well publicized killer of many people – a serial killer. The Zodiac Killer became infamous as he always left his mark – a mark like Zorro … Continue reading

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Literary Criticism

Even the humbler varities such as literary criticism and biography is selective but far too often Lee writes as if she believes that creating an engaging narrative is as simple as enumarting every known fact of Wharton’s long life. Be … Continue reading

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Literary Criticisms and Backwaters

Even the humbler varities such as literary criticism and biography, is selective but far too often Lee wites as if she believes that creating an engaging narrative is as simple as enumerating every known fact of Wharton’s long life. By … Continue reading

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Wharton's Literary and Non Literary Passions

For someone who allocates far too much space to Wharton’s non-literary passions, gardening and home design ( decorating for example, nearly two entire pages to describing an English country house that Wharton could not buy). Lee is curiously silent on … Continue reading

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Fast and Loose

Although Wharton retrospectively depicted her childhood and early adulthood as one overly long gestation period in her development into the prolific world famous author and writer than she became ( her self portrait of a morbid self scrutinizing child and … Continue reading

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