Where does Odysseus die in Nikos Kazantzakis’s The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938)?
Odysseus dies in the South Pole in Nikos Kazantzakis’s The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel.
Odysseus dies in the South Pole in Nikos Kazantzakis’s The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel.
Nelson Algren received the first National Book Award for Fiction in 1950 for The Man with the Golden Arm.
Twelfth-century Persian poet Omar Khayyam wrote “A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou” in his Rubaiyat, translated into English by Edward Fitz-Gerald in 1859.
Shangri-La, the setting for James Hilton’s 1933 novel Lost Horizon supposedly has a real-life counterpart in Hunza, Pakistan. The community, which boasts of having the healthiest people in the world, many over 100 years old, is located at the borders of Pakistan, China, and the Soviet Union.
Novelist Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John’s, Antigua, in the West Indies, in 1949. Her given name is Elaine Potter Richardson. St. John’s, Antigua, in the West Indies, in 1949. Her given name is Elaine Potter Richardson.
Born in 1266, Beatrice Portinari, wife of Simone de’ Bardi, was Dante’s junior by one year. They were in their youth when Dante (1265-1321) fell in love with her. She died in 1290, leaving Dante in mourning. He wrote about her in the Vita Nuova (1294) and the Divine Comedy (1321).
Edward Bellamy looking backward from the year 2000 in Looking Backward.