What figure of Greek mythology is crushed by fate in Jean Cocteau’s tragedy The Infernal Machine (1934)?
Oedipus is crushed by fate in Jean Cocteau’s tragedy The Infernal Machine.
Oedipus is crushed by fate in Jean Cocteau’s tragedy The Infernal Machine.
The animal in the 1865 Mark Twain story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is named Dan’l Webster.
One of the earliest and most influential American magazine editors, Sarah Josepha Hale wrote “Mary Had a Little Lamb” in 1830. In addition to founding the first national women’s magazine, Godey’s Ladies’Magazine, and successfully campaigning to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, she was inspired to write the rhyme by an actual case of a child’s…
Captain Ahab’s first mate in Melville’s MobyDick is Starbuck, the second is Stubb, the third is Flask.
The stockyard district where main character Jurgis Rudkis lives and works in The Jungle is known as Packingtown, in Chicago. The 1906 book led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. the stockyard district where main character Jurgis Rudkis lives and works in The Jungle
Zelda Fitzgerald wrote one novel, Save Me the Waltz (1932).
The title of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel “gone with the wind”comes from a poem by Ernest Dowson, a poet of the 1890s, called “Non Sum Qualis Eram,” or “Cynara.”