Who goes with Everyman to face Judgment?
Only Good Deeds goes with Everyman to face Judgment.
In the 1495 morality play, Everyman is deserted by Beauty, Strength, Discretion, and Five Wits.
Only Good Deeds goes with Everyman to face Judgment.
In the 1495 morality play, Everyman is deserted by Beauty, Strength, Discretion, and Five Wits.
John Greenleaf Whittier describes the bravery of the fictional title character in his poem “Barbara Frietchie” (1863) who said, “Shoot, if you must, this old gray head”. The aged Frietchie displays a Union flag when Confederate troops march by. Stonewall Jackson forbids his troops to harm the old woman.
Unlike the 1988 film adaptation, in which Roy Hobbs wins the World Series with a pyrotechnic home run, Bernard Malamud’s original story The Natural has the slugger, preoccupied with sex and materialism, throw the final game of the World Series.
In The Iliad (9th century B.C.), Thetis, a sea nymph is Achilles’ mother.
Russian writer Ivan Turgenev coined the word “nihilist” in his 1862 novel Fathers and Sons.
Felix Salten’s real name is Siegmund Salzmann. Under the pen name “Salten,” the German author wrote Bambi (1923). The first English translation was published in 1928.
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.