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• United States writer of novels and short stories mostly on moral themes (1804-1864)

25%13 Evolutionary stage of English between Old English and Early Modern English
noun

• English from about 1100 to 1450

25%6 Last name of the American writer and political activist who authored 'The Quiet American'
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• English novelist and Catholic (1904-1991)

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