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In any type of writing, there are three possible points of view: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, or me, you, and other. There are three periods of the English language’s history: Old, Middle, and Modern. And dramas traditionally have three parts: prot asis, epitasis, and catastrophe.

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Bronte, Emily (1818-1848)

Bronte, Emily (1818-1848)

Bronte, Emily (1818-1848)

"I lingered around them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth." 

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Three Lives

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

By Gertrude Stein

The publication of this first of Stein’s works established her position as a master of the English language and expositor of the twentieth-century woman.

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Three Sisters

Wang Fei began her study of the guqin under Professor Li Xiangting at the Central Conservatory of Music in China in 1981. Wang Fei is also a well-known author in China. She and her two sisters are known as the Chinese Bronte Sisters. Their book “Three Sisters’ Skies and Dreams” was a bestseller in Beijing in 1997. She also plays the guzheng (21 stringed Zither) and does Chinese painting.