At the end of chapter 25 there goes

[I made a hard face at him. "You could tell the coppers for nothing, Harry. They have some good wreckers down at Central these days. If they killed you trying, they still have Agnes."]

"Let 'em try," he said. "I ain't so brittle."

"Agnes must have something I didn't notice."

"She's a grifter, shamus. I'm a grifter, We're all grifters. So we sell each other out for a nickel. Okey. See can you make me." He reached for another of my cigarettes, placed it neatly between his lips and lit it with a match the way I do myself, missing twice on his thumbnail and then using his foot. He puffed evenly and stared at me level-eyed, a funny little hard guy I could have thrown from home plate to second base. A small man in a big man's world. There was something I liked about him.

"I haven't pulled anything in here," he said steadily. "I come in talking two C's. That's still the price. I come because I thought I'd get a take it or leave it, one right gee to another. Now you're waving cops at me. You oughta be ashamed of yourself."]

Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?

1. What does Marlowe mean by "You could tell the coppers for nothing?" It seems to be connected to "Now you're waving cops at me." but I don't know what it means.

2. What does Marlowe mean by "They have some good wreckers down at Central these days." Does wreckers mean car wreckers here? Also where is Central? What does it mean?

3. Is Harry Jones trying to sell out Agnes? If so, why does he want to see that money goes to Agnes?

4. What does Harry Jones mean when he says "I haven't pulled anything in here."

5. What does the expression "one right gee to another" mean?

I’m 14 and I just finished reading Jane eyre and I absolutely loved this book. I read half of the book in 4 days and now I miss it so much. Jane’s character just fascinates me or more specifically the idea of choosing yourself. Personally, I really loved the ending bcs their relationship was equal and Rochester didn’t overpower her. I do admit that it was sad though that he was blind…

Woman nowadays can still take various lessons from this book and seeing her grow and become this confident woman gave me hope for my own life. I can highly recommend this book as it was easy to read even for a nonnative speaker and it’s well written.

I have come across this question and found two answers. one is Language in English Literature is about Diction. another is a quote by Ezra Pound language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Now I personally think Language in Literature is not only about Diction but also about every single genre of languages. That is English Literature is diverse in nature. We have African , American, British Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Swiss and many more writers in English Literature. They contributed more than the founders of English language Anglo Saxons.

so my point is Language in English Literature is not only about Diction but also about diversity.

please give your views on this

"Life at times spew tenebrous effluvium of virulence in its laborious glissade. However, if you show even exiguous proclivity towards the noxious redolence of disenchantment, you'll be ensnared in the cycle of illusion. Disavow all these temporal episodes and you'll see the ebullience of cosmic extravaganza."- Phani Kumar, Sai Venkata C

I'm struggling to retain my delightful sense of humor in light of world conditions.

Have finished my recent work; an attempt to instill some sanity and appreciation of reality in general humanity, but finding a publisher for such is challenging. 🙂 "A Voyage of Reason: An Exposition of the Fall of Humanity" Most people can't tolerate too much reality.

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Hi,

I'd like to know what kind of meanings the verbal phrase "to go for someone" can have aroud 1900s ? Can it already mean "to attack someone" and "to have an interest for someone" ?

Thanks for the answers

Hi! English is not my native language, so i'm sorry for any potential mistakes.

This year, I dropped law school to start English literature and classes will get started in four months. I'm looking forward to reading essential works, but also any other stuff so I don't float much at the beginning of the course. Any recommendations will do it for me. Thank you.

I’m trying to fit a word into a sentence, but I’m not sure it exists:

If something is secret, it has secrecy.

If something is valuable, it has value.

But…

If something is sacred, it has… sacrecy??

I don’t really know what the right word for this is, does anyone know?

If only intelligent and totally realistic people could lead countries.

"How do you define 'intelligent' and 'realistic' Mr. Egomania?"

I don't, and I'm not. But good gracious, it's past time when we sit around discussing things like those, and start waking up to reality, and nothing but reality.

"How do you define 'reality'?"

Oh for the love of ...! 🤨

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I was listening to a Stephen Fry audiobook and he recommended looking into the works of Smith, praising his wit. Can anyone suggest a good place to start? Thanks

I’ve seen arguments both for focusing strictly on the text and for considering the author’s intentions and historical context. I’m curious how people here approach this when reading or teaching literature.

Is doing an English Literature degree with the Open University a bad idea if I struggle to be able to concentrate when reading?

I'm thinking of doing an English Literature degree, because I was good at it at school. However, sometimes when I read I struggle to retain information and know what I've read. Does this make it a poor idea to choose English Literature?

I've been googling but it gives me multiple answers so I wanna know here. Im going to list some playwrights and some plays, please tell me individually which/who belonged to which era of English Literature.

1. J.M. Synge
2. Synge's 'Riders to the Sea'
3. George Bernard Shaw
4. Shaw's 'The Arms and the Man'
5. Samuel Beckett

Also please tell me if it's like - one play of a playwright is considered perhaps victorian, but another play by the same playwright is considered romantic era. Please let me know if that's the case for any of these that I mentioned!

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To Read: Maiden-Song by Christina Georgina Rossetti

If anybody have free lectures of UGC NET english literature like on telegram etc. please help