Which came first, Omoo or Typee?
Melville’s novels of the South Seas were published in this order:
Typee in 1846, Omoo in 1847
Melville’s novels of the South Seas were published in this order:
Typee in 1846, Omoo in 1847
The “Whore of Babylon” appears in the New Testament Book of Revelation 17:1-7. The whore sits on a scarlet beast with seven heads and ten horns. She holds a cup of abominations and has written on her forehead: “Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth.” She was probably meant originally…
The second movie mentioned by name in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer (1961) is The Third Man (1949), directed by Carol Reed.
In The Winter’s Tale, Act III, Scene 3. Antigonus, a lord of Sicilia, runs for his life after hearing “A savage clamor!” He doesn’t make it; his death is reported later in the scene.
Jessica Tandy first played Blanche DuBois in the first production of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, opposite Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski.
“Mistah Kurtz—he dead,” from Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness is the quotation at the start of T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men”.
The Chinese master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu appeared in 13 novels by Sax Rohmer beginning in 1913. He received his main opposition from Sir Denis Nayland Smith, loosely connected with Scotland Yard. Smith’s sidekick was Dr. Petrie.