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Boggy land often looks lumpy, with large tussocks that make the ground uneven: Snow often remains in crevices even after the larger drifts of snow surrounding it have gone. This is because it's ...

The Minniemashie House is based on the Palmer House Hotel in Sauk Center, Minnesota. The young Sinclair Lewis worked two summers as a desk clerk at the Palmer House. He later used it as the model for ...

Shadows is modifying only the Yankee fur-traders, as you first thought. The comma makes this clear. The sentence would have worked without it, so it's only there to make this division. As for your ...

Carol trusts in the fundamental goodness of the world, without quite knowing what it is ("vaguely conceived"), and this emboldens her to be more adventurous than the other girls. "Sweetness and light"...

She says, Good lord I hope it is not "that" If she were casually sick, why would she refer the sickness as that? she should be talking about the sickness that comes with pregnancy. The discussion ...