What was the name of the Faerie Queene in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590-96)?
Gloriana was the name of the Faerie Queene in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590-96).
Gloriana was the name of the Faerie Queene in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590-96).
The alternative title to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was The Modern Prometheus.
In the 1886 work by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Henry Jekyll is the London doctor who creates the potion that turns him into Edward Hyde.
Although some biographers believe the story of Oz’s naming to be as fanciful as the tales themselves, author L. Frank Baum claimed that he was inspired by a file cabinet marked O–Z. Other suggested derivations include: a variation on Uz, Job’s house; a variation of children’s oh’s and ah’s; and a variation of Boz, the…
In Dostoyevsky’s 1880 novel, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov has four sons: Dmitri, Ivan, Alyosha, and Smerdyakov, a bastard. Dmitri is the son accused of killing his father.
Tobias Smollett created Roderick Random, in The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748).
The seven virtues are: faith, hope, charity (or love), prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. The first three are called the theological virtues, the last four the cardinal virtues.