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On the Internet, it's incredibly easy, and fast, to research a topic with a few simple keystrokes. But it's also incredibly easy to end up with unreliable and non-credible information that makes your research efforts fruitless. With an overwhelming abundance of options after doing an Internet search, how can you tell which results are reliable? In this video, viewers will learn strategies for narrowing down results and honing in on credible sources...
3) Saul Bellow
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Saul Bellow is arguably the premier literary figure in the U.S. in the final decades of the 20th century. Erudite and entertaining, a novelist whose work booksellers and librarians shelve not under fiction, but under literature, Bellow has seen his work both transformed to the popular silver screen and graced with the Nobel Prize for Literature. In this program, he talks about himself and his characters; his childhood, parents, and education; how...
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Arriving in London, Tom Pinch accidentally meets Mrs. Jonas Chuzzlewit (nee Mercy Pecksniff) and is shocked to see that she has suffered at her husband’s hands. He sets up home in Islington with his sister Ruth and is promptly offered a librarian’s job at a most generous salary by a mysterious benefactor. In Wiltshire, Mary Graham receives news that young Martin’s property purchase in Eden has turned out to be a malarial swamp, but that he and...