Who is the hero of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952)?
The hero of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man has no name.
He is a young man from the South who finds his way to a hidden existence in a coal cellar in New York.
The hero of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man has no name.
He is a young man from the South who finds his way to a hidden existence in a coal cellar in New York.
Philip Pirrip was Pip’s real name in Great Expectations.
Vladimir Nabokov wrote ten novels in Russian before turning to English, including Laughter in the Dark (1938). His first novel written in English was The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941). Nabokov (1899-1977) came to the United States in 1940 and was naturalized in 1945.
The original title of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake was Work in Progress during the seventeen years of its composition (1922-39). Parts of it were published under that title before the work was completed.
Oedipus is crushed by fate in Jean Cocteau’s tragedy The Infernal Machine.
The illustrator’s counterpart to the Newbery Medal, named for English illustrator Randolph Caldecott, was first awarded in 1938 to Dorothy P. Lathrop for Animals of the Bible.
Natty Bumppo’s Indian sidekick was Chingachgook. He appears in Cooper’s The Deer-slayer (1841), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Pioneers (1823).