What was the first message woven into Charlotte’s web?
In the 1952 novel Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White, the first message Charlotte the spider writes in her web is “SOME PIG!”
In the 1952 novel Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White, the first message Charlotte the spider writes in her web is “SOME PIG!”
Charlotte Bronte’s close friend, novelist Elizabeth Gaskell wrote The Life of Charlotte Bronte. The two met in 1850; Bronte died five years later.
Rhett Butler’s parting shot to Scarlett O’Hara in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind is “My dear, I don’t give a damn.” In the 1939 movie, it became, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
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…
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.
The first part of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls is recognized as a comic masterpiece, but the second part never saw the light of day. Convinced by the radical priest Father Matthew Konstantinovsky that literature was sinful, Gogol (1809-52) burned the manuscript of Part Two in 1852. He died a few days later.
Maya Angelou and Godfrey Cambridge collaborated on Cabaret for Freedom in 1960. Cambridge is best known for his appearances in films like Watermelon Man (1970) and Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970). Angelou’s poetry, prose, and drama include the autobiographical volume, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).