What are the last words of A Christmas Carol?
“And so, as Tiny Tim observed, ‘God Bless us, Every One!’ “
“And so, as Tiny Tim observed, ‘God Bless us, Every One!’ “
Ralph was the embattled elected leader in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
Percy Shelley’s first wife Harriet Westbrook Shelley committed suicide by drowning in 1816, two years after Shelley left her for Mary Wollstonecraft. Shelley had eloped with the sixteen-year-old Harriet in 1811. Shelley himself died by drowning in a boating accident aboard his schooner, Ariel, in 1822.
The animal in the 1865 Mark Twain story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is named Dan’l Webster.
Phineas was the teenager who dies in John Knowles’s A Separate Peace. Gene, the novel’s narrator, survives to tell the tale. The two are students at the Devon School in New Hampshire during World War II.
Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne are buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Massachusetts.
The retarded narrator of the first section of the Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury is thirty-three years old. Faulkner asked that Benjy’s stream of consciousness be printed in eight different colors of type to better express the layers of Benjy’s memory. The request was not granted.