Which work by Oscar Wilde includes the statement “I can resist everything except temptation”?
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) by Oscar Wilde includes the statement “I can resist everything except temptation”.
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) by Oscar Wilde includes the statement “I can resist everything except temptation”.
Lolita was twelve when Humbert Humbert first met her.
In H. G. Wells’s novel, the name of the Invisible Man was Griffin. The Invisible Man was published in 1897. Griffin remains invisible until he is dying.
Beatrice was probably Beatrice Portinari, daughter of a noble Florentine family and wife of Simone de’ Bardi. She died at the age of twenty-four on June 8,1290, more than two decades before the Divine Comedy was completed. Dante fell in love with her when they were both children and dedicated most of his poetry to…
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.
The 1981 novel Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson is set in Fingerbone, Montana.
Hazel Motes founded the Church Without Christ in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood, “where the blind don’t see and the lame don’t walk and what’s dead stays that way.” A charlatan named Onnie Jay Holy started a rival sect, the Holy Church of Christ Without Christ.