Who lived in the Castle of Otranto?
The Castle of Otranto was inhabited by Manfred, the Prince of Otranto, with his family, in the 1764 Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.
The Castle of Otranto was inhabited by Manfred, the Prince of Otranto, with his family, in the 1764 Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.
New York socialite Edith Newbold Jones (1862-1937) married George Wharton in 1885. Their marriage lasted twenty-seven years until 1912, when she divorced him. By then she was living in France, where she remained until her death.
Agamemnon, commander-in-chief of the Greek armies at Troy, is forced to return a captive woman named Chryseis in order to stop a pestilence sent by the god Apollo at the beginning of Homer’s The Iliad. Agamemnon demands Achilles’ captive Briseis in exchange. Achilles, in anger, refuses to fight for the Greeks any longer.
Dr. Samuel Johnson said it of his dictionary in “Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language” (1747-55).
The story “Wedding Preparations in the Country” (1907) by Franz Kafka seems to directly foreshadow Gregor Samsa’s plight, as a train passenger lying in bed imagines himself as a giant bug.
The first Augustan Age was in the time of the Roman emperor Augustus (27 B.C.-14 A.D.), when Latin poets like Vergil, Ovid, and Horace brought about a literary golden age. The second Augustan Age was in the early to mid-eighteenth century in England, when writers such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and Richard Steele ushered…
The first book published by Dr. Seuss was And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street. It was published in 1937 by Vanguard Press, after being rejected by twenty-three other publishers.