What was the name of Holden Caulfield’s roommate in The Catcher in the Rye (1951)?
Stradlater was the rich and conceited roommate of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye.
Stradlater was the rich and conceited roommate of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye.
There are three short novels in the 1939 collection by Katherine Anne Porter: 1. “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” 2. “Noon Wine” 3. “Old Mortality”
Edgar Allan Poe invented detective C. Auguste Dupin, the coolly logical amateur sleuth of three stories published in the 1840s: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” and “The Purloined Letter.”
The name of the minor-league team in Mark Harris’s Bang the Drum Slowly is The New York Mammoths. The novel’s narrator is Henry Wiggen, star pitcher for the Mammoths.
At the beginning of Henry Fielding’s novel Tom Jones (1749), it appears his mother is Jenny Jones, servant of Squire Allworthy. By the end of the novel, his true mother is revealed: Bridget, Squire Allworthy’s sister. Henry
Frank Stockton wrote the story “The Lady or the Tiger?” in 1882.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) wrote, “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive”, not Shakespeare.