How many Brothers Karamazov are there?
In Dostoyevsky’s 1880 novel, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov has four sons:
Dmitri, Ivan, Alyosha, and Smerdyakov, a bastard.
Dmitri is the son accused of killing his father.
In Dostoyevsky’s 1880 novel, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov has four sons:
Dmitri, Ivan, Alyosha, and Smerdyakov, a bastard.
Dmitri is the son accused of killing his father.
Sinbad the Sailor was an Iraqi, a merchant shipwrecked after setting sail from Basra, now Iraq. The story of his seven voyages is told in The Thousand and One Nights.
Joseph Conrad make the journey down the Congo River in 1890, aboard the Roi des Beiges and it became the basis for Heart of Darkness. Conrad took over as ship master when the captain fell ill of tropical fever.
The Fugitives and Agrarians were a group of writers associated with Vanderbilt University in Nashville in the 1920s and 1930s. The most famous of the group were Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson.
Odysseus descends into the underworld in Book XI of XXIV of Homer’s Odyssey .
The unhappy Werther’s beloved in Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is Lotte.
Dr. Felix Hoenikker in Cat’s Cradle (1963) invented ice-nine. Ice-nine is a form of water that freezes at 114.4 degrees Fahrenheit. When it is accidentally released into the ocean, it freezes the entire world. Dr. Felix Hoenikker in Cat’s Cradle (1963). Ice-nine is a form of water that freezes at 114.4 degrees Fahrenheit. When it…