Which character spontaneously combusts in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House (1852)?
Krook, the junk merchant, spontaneously combusts in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House.
Krook, the junk merchant.
Krook, the junk merchant, spontaneously combusts in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House.
Krook, the junk merchant.
Edward Stratemeyer created Nancy Drew, under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The prolific author died in 1930.
Jessie L. Weston’s From Ritual to Romance (1920) was the book about the Holy Grail quest that T. S. Eliot drew upon in his poem, The Waste Land.
Bellow’s friend Delmore Schwartz (1913-66), poet, fiction writer, and critic, was the model for Saul Bellow’s hard-drinking poet Von Humboldt Fleisher in the novel Humboldt’s Gift.
Zelda Fitzgerald wrote one novel, Save Me the Waltz (1932).
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).
In the 1928 essay “a room of one’s own”, it refers to the space a woman needs to write fiction. Specifically, Woolf says that a woman needs two things to be able to write: “money and a room of her own.” The essay was drawn from two papers Woolf gave at the Arts Society at…