Who first used the expression “the Almighty Dollar”?
Washington Irving is believed to have originated the expression “the Almighty Dollar” in Wolfert’s Roost (1855).
Washington Irving is believed to have originated the expression “the Almighty Dollar” in Wolfert’s Roost (1855).
The opening line: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring…
The novel The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker tells the story of a single lunch hour. Much of the book focuses on an escalator ride.
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In the 1886 work by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Henry Jekyll is the London doctor who creates the potion that turns him into Edward Hyde.
The most complete treatment is the Argonautica by third-century poet Apollonius of Rhodes.
The golliwog, a type of doll known as “the blackest gnome,” was invented by Florence K. Upton in The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a “Golliwog” (1895). More golliwog tales followed until 1909.