Where did the Argonauts get their name?
The Argonauts were the crew of the ship Argo, which sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece.
The Argonauts were the crew of the ship Argo, which sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece.
Thackeray’s Vanity Fair (1848) is subtitled “A Novel Without a Hero”.
Considered the oldest full novel in the world, The Tale of Genji was written in Japan toward the start of the eleventh century.
James Dickey has written two novels, Deliverance (1970) and Alnilam (1987). Dickey also wrote the screenplay for the 1972 movie Deliverance, and appeared in the film as a sheriff. A poet and critic, Dickey received the National Book Award for poetry in 1966 for Bucketdancer’s Choice (1965).
In 1789, The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown was published. This first American novel, written by the son of a Boston clockmaker, concerned seduction, incest, rape, and suicide.
C. S. Lewis married Joy Davidman in 1956. She died of cancer in 1960, three years before Lewis’s own death in 1963. Their story is told in Lewis’s A Grief Observed (1961).
In act 1, scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet’s father says she “hath not seen the change of fourteen years”, making her thirteen.