How are Gargantua and Pantagruel related?
In Rabelais’s French satire Gargantua and Pantagruel (1533), Gargantua is Pantagruel’s father.
Both are giants who go on humorous adventures.
In Rabelais’s French satire Gargantua and Pantagruel (1533), Gargantua is Pantagruel’s father.
Both are giants who go on humorous adventures.
The young man Goethe is the protagonist of two novels, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1795-96) and Wilhelm Meister’s Travels, or The Renunciants (1829).
Gloriana was the name of the Faerie Queene in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590-96).
The Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby (1838-390) exposed the “ragged schools” and helped get them abolished.
In Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952), Santiago catches a marlin.
Hemingway’s alter ego Nick Adams, the central figure of In Our Time (1924), makes his first appearance in “Indian Camp” (1923).
Henry Fielding summoned poet laureate Colley Cibber to court in 1740 for the murder of the English language. Fielding issued the summons under the pseudonym “Captain Hercules Vinegar.”