In The Iliad (9th century B.C.), what goddess is Achilles’ mother?
In The Iliad (9th century B.C.), Thetis, a sea nymph is Achilles’ mother.
In The Iliad (9th century B.C.), Thetis, a sea nymph is Achilles’ mother.
Ethan Frome and his beloved, Mattie Silver, drive a sled into a tree in a botched suicide attempt in Edith Wharton’s novel, Ethan Frome.
The book describes the epidemic of bubonic plague that ravaged England in 1665. Defoe’s fictionalized account was published in 1722. Defoe himself was only five years old when the plague hit London.
The rainbow in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow is the arc a rocket makes from launch to target. The novel is set in World War II Europe at the time German V-2 rockets were falling on London.
George Orwell’s real name was Eric Arthur Blair.
There are 24 Canterbury Tales. In the order accepted in standard texts, they are: Knight’s Tale Miller’s Tale Reeve’s Tale Cook’s Tale Man of Law’s Tale Wife of Bath’s Tale Friar’s Tale Summoner’s Tale Clerk’s Tale Merchant’s Tale Squire’s Tale Franklin’s Tale Physician’s Tale Pardoner’s Tale Shipman’s Tale Prioress’s Tale Tale of Sir Thopas Tale…
The rest of the nursery rhyme from which Ken Kesey took the title for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is: Wire, briar, limber, lock, Three geese in a flock, One flew East, one flew West, One flew over the cuckoo’s nest.