Main Street (Barnes & Noble Classics Ser - Sinclair Lewis [242]
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Great Greek hero of the legendary Trojan War, depicted in Homer’s Iliad.
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Old king of the ancient Greek city of Pylos and wise adviser to the Greek army at Troy.
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Pen name of Jacques Anatole François Thibault (1844-1924), the sophisticated, cynical French writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921.
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Martin Andersen Nexø (1869-1954), Danish proletarian author who wrote about the struggling working classes.
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Ellen Key (1849-1926), Swedish author, feminist, pacifist, and radical.
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Favorite character in pantomime, dressed in a floppy, long-sleeved gown.
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Kaiser Wilhelm II, member of the royal Hohenzollern dynasty of Germany, who led Germany into World War I.
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Members of the German military aristocracy, who supported Wilhelm II during World War I.
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The Russian Revolution of November 1917, when the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.
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Home of American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) in Concord, Massachusetts.
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Walking-skirt.
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The Zouaves were nineteenth-century French infantrymen who dressed in brilliantly colored uniforms.
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Eugene Field (1850-1895), popular American newspaper columnist and author of light verse.
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From La Marseillaise (1792), the French revolutionary hymn that later became the national anthem.
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Mythical tree-climbing animal of the North Woods.
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Sixteenth governor of Minnesota, who lived from 1861 to 1909.
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World War I bond; to buy them was considered a patriotic duty.
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In the Bible, one of the descendants of Benjamin; see I Chronicles 8:26.
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The Chaldeans were an ancient Semitic people who became dominant in Babylonia.
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The Eighteenth Amendment, ratified in 1919, prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors in the United States.
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Minnesota poet (1877-1908), personally known to Lewis, who accidentally drowned as a young man.
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From the 1820 poem “The Eve of St. Agnes,” by English poet John Keats.
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American playwrights George Cram Cook and his wife Susan Glaspell founded the Provincetown Players in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1915; their satirical play Suppressed Desires (1914) deals with psychoanalysis.
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Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse (1888-1958), English novelist, dramatist, and criminologist, and grandniece of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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1902 novel by American author Charles Major.
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1872 novel by American author Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888).
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Alexander Pope (1688-1744), great English neoclassical author and poet.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), English poet and painter; leading figure of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), American painter known chiefly for his portraits.
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Walter Pater (1839-1894), English scholar, essayist, and aesthete, and prophet of the doctrine of “art for art’s sake.”
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At that time the largest mansion in Minnesota, built by Charles Gates in 1913 on the Lake of the Isles.
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Very good! (German).
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Something, as a piece of land, that projects beyond its surroundings.
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Body louse.
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Dying, in World War I slang.
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American financier from Minnesota (1838-1916) who purchased the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad and extended the line as far as Seattle.
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Republican governor of Minnesota and later a U.S. senator; lived from 1843 to 1923.
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Truce; World War I ended on November 11, 1918.
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Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), American violinist and composer born in Vienna, Austria.
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Robert M. La Follette (1855-1925), three-term Wisconsin governor and later U.S. senator; leader of progressives and radicals in government; opposed U.S. involvement in World War I and participation in League of Nations and World Court.
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Woodrow Wilson’s vice president was Thomas Riley Marshall (1854-1925).
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A fashionable restaurant.
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Yvette Guilbert (1867-1944), French singer.
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Mischa Elman (1891-1967), Russian violinist who emigrated to America.