What is the name of the title character in The Alchemist?
Subtle is the name of the shady character in the 1610 play The Alchemist by Ben Jonson.
He works with two other unsavory characters, Face (a.k.a. Jeremy) and Dol Common.
Subtle is the name of the shady character in the 1610 play The Alchemist by Ben Jonson.
He works with two other unsavory characters, Face (a.k.a. Jeremy) and Dol Common.
Sinbad the Sailor was an Iraqi, a merchant shipwrecked after setting sail from Basra, now Iraq. The story of his seven voyages is told in The Thousand and One Nights.
The first and middle names of the twentieth-century English critic I.A. Richards are Ivor Armstrong.
Ernest Hemingway won one Pulitzer prize, for The Old Man and the Sea (1952).
Ralph was the embattled elected leader in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
Joseph Conrad make the journey down the Congo River in 1890, aboard the Roi des Beiges and it became the basis for Heart of Darkness. Conrad took over as ship master when the captain fell ill of tropical fever.
In Stendhal’s 1830 novel The Red and the Black, the red refers to Napoleon’s colors or the military life, the black to the clergy or religious life.