What were the names of the Bobbsey Twins?
There were two sets of twins: Bert and Nan and their younger siblings, Freddie and Flossie.
The series about them began with The Bobbsey Twins (1904) by Laura Lee Hope.
There were two sets of twins: Bert and Nan and their younger siblings, Freddie and Flossie.
The series about them began with The Bobbsey Twins (1904) by Laura Lee Hope.
A Confederacy of Dunces was published eleven years John Kennedy Toole’s death. Born in 1937, Toole finished his comic novel of New Orleans in 1963, but failed to find a publisher. He committed suicide in 1969. With the help of the novelist Walker Percy, his mother succeeded in getting the book published in 1980. Dunces…
Odysseus descends into the underworld in Book XI of XXIV of Homer’s Odyssey .
The book describes the epidemic of bubonic plague that ravaged England in 1665. Defoe’s fictionalized account was published in 1722. Defoe himself was only five years old when the plague hit London.
John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819) contains the line “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.
Although some biographers believe the story of Oz’s naming to be as fanciful as the tales themselves, author L. Frank Baum claimed that he was inspired by a file cabinet marked O–Z. Other suggested derivations include: a variation on Uz, Job’s house; a variation of children’s oh’s and ah’s; and a variation of Boz, the…
The title of O. Henry’s short story collection The Four Million refers to two things: it represents the population of New York City at the time, and it is an answer to Ward McAllister, who said “there are only about 400 people in New York society.” The collection contains the 1902 story, “The Gift of…