What is the name of the title character in The Monk?
Father Ambrosio, of Madrid is the name of the title character in The Monk.
He kills two women who turn out to be his mother, Elvira, and his sister, Antonia, in the 1795 novel by Matthew Lewis.
Father Ambrosio, of Madrid is the name of the title character in The Monk.
He kills two women who turn out to be his mother, Elvira, and his sister, Antonia, in the 1795 novel by Matthew Lewis.
The Latin translation of the Bible was written mostly by St. Jerome in 382-384 A.D. The term comes from Latin editio vulgata, “spread among the people.”
Rhett Butler’s parting shot to Scarlett O’Hara in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind is “My dear, I don’t give a damn.” In the 1939 movie, it became, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
The A.A. in A. A. Milne stands for Alan Alexander. Milne is best known as the author of Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928).
Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize in Literature in 1950, for Annie Allen.
Edgar Allan Poe’s epitaph was “Quoth the Raven nevermore,” from his poem “The Raven” (1845).
The Old Testament was written in Hebrew. It dates from the thirteenth to the first century B.C. The New Testament was written in Greek in the first century A . D.