Who wrote Tom Brown’s School Days (1857)?
Thomas Hughes, English jurist wrote Tom Brown’s School Days.
The book for boys tells of young Tom Brown’s adventures at Rugby.
Hughes also wrote a sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).
Thomas Hughes, English jurist wrote Tom Brown’s School Days.
The book for boys tells of young Tom Brown’s adventures at Rugby.
Hughes also wrote a sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).
Bluebeard, the title character of Charles Perrault’s story “Barbebleue” (1697) kills his wives for looking into the locked room where he stores the corpses of other disobedient wives. His final wife, however, escapes Bluebeard’s punishment.
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.”
In Rabelais’s French satire Gargantua and Pantagruel (1533), Gargantua is Pantagruel’s father. Both are giants who go on humorous adventures.
Bloomsday, the date on which James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) is set, is June 16, 1904.
Considered the oldest full novel in the world, The Tale of Genji was written in Japan toward the start of the eleventh century.
The wits who traded barbs at New York’s Algonquin Hotel in the 1920s included: Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Frank Case, Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman, Harpo Marx, Neysa McMein, Dorothy Parker, Harold Ross, Robert E. Sherwood, and Alexander Woollcott. The Algonquin Hotel still stands. It was recently sold to a group of…