Who is the hero of Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940)?
The hero of Richard Wright’s Native Son is Bigger Thomas, a black man from Chicago who murders a white woman and is executed for it.
The hero of Richard Wright’s Native Son is Bigger Thomas, a black man from Chicago who murders a white woman and is executed for it.
At the end of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1819), Washington Irving’s schoolmaster Ichabod Crane disappears after being hit by the Headless Horseman’s “head.”
“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”.
Considered the oldest full novel in the world, The Tale of Genji was written in Japan toward the start of the eleventh century.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were three Jews who were thrown into a fiery furnace by order of King Nebuchadnezzar in chapter 3 of the Old Testament Book of Daniel, as punishment for refusing to worship a golden idol. God saved them, however, allowing them to walk through the fire unharmed.
Dr. Faustus, the scholar who sells his soul to Satan is torn apart by devils at the end of Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus.
Zelda Fitzgerald wrote one novel, Save Me the Waltz (1932).