Which brother in the Brothers Grimm was younger?
Wilhelm Carl (1786-1859; Jacob, 1785-1863) was the younger brother.
Their book Children’s and Household Tales, now known as Grimm’s Fairy-Tales, first appeared in 1812.
Wilhelm Carl (1786-1859; Jacob, 1785-1863) was the younger brother.
Their book Children’s and Household Tales, now known as Grimm’s Fairy-Tales, first appeared in 1812.
Zora Neale Hurston was a folklorist who studied with anthropologist Franz Boas at Barnard College before becoming a novelist. In Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse (1938), she compiled black traditions of the South and the Caribbean. Her novels include Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937).
Two hundred and forty-four deceased inhabitants of Spoon River recite their verse epitaphs in Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology.
The riddle of the Sphinx is as follows: “What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three at night?” the Sphinx asks Oedipus, the hero of Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex (426 B.c.). Oedipus answers that it is man (crawling as an infant, walking erect as an adult, and walking with…
In Rabelais’s French satire Gargantua and Pantagruel (1533), Gargantua is Pantagruel’s father. Both are giants who go on humorous adventures.
Charlotte Bronte’s close friend, novelist Elizabeth Gaskell wrote The Life of Charlotte Bronte. The two met in 1850; Bronte died five years later.
In act 1, scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet’s father says she “hath not seen the change of fourteen years”, making her thirteen.