What was the first book published by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)?
The first book published by Dr. Seuss was And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street.
It was published in 1937 by Vanguard Press, after being rejected by twenty-three other publishers.
The first book published by Dr. Seuss was And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street.
It was published in 1937 by Vanguard Press, after being rejected by twenty-three other publishers.
The first national copyright act was passed in England in 1709.
The seven virtues are: faith, hope, charity (or love), prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. The first three are called the theological virtues, the last four the cardinal virtues.
Odysseus descends into the underworld in Book XI of XXIV of Homer’s Odyssey .
Percy Shelley’s first wife Harriet Westbrook Shelley committed suicide by drowning in 1816, two years after Shelley left her for Mary Wollstonecraft. Shelley had eloped with the sixteen-year-old Harriet in 1811. Shelley himself died by drowning in a boating accident aboard his schooner, Ariel, in 1822.
It was not Mark Twain who said the phrase. The quote first appeared in an editorial in the Hartford Courant of August 24, 1897, probably written by associate editor Charles Dudley Warner. Warner had collaborated with Twain on The Gilded Age (1873).
The full title Of The Pickwick Papers is The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.