Who created Roderick Random?
Tobias Smollett created Roderick Random, in The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748).
Tobias Smollett created Roderick Random, in The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748).
Jonathan Swift first used the phrase “belles lettres” in Tatler 230 (1710): “The Traders in History and Politics, and the Belles Lettres.” In French the term means “beautiful letters, fine writing.” Swift added the pejorative connotation of light or trivial literature.
Nelson Algren received the first National Book Award for Fiction in 1950 for The Man with the Golden Arm.
The musical The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt has been running for over thirty years, since May 1960.
Washington Irving is believed to have originated the expression “the Almighty Dollar” in Wolfert’s Roost (1855).
In the novel My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara, Flicka, a half-wild filly, is the friend of ten-year-old Ken McLaughlin in Wyoming.
Thackeray’s Vanity Fair (1848) is subtitled “A Novel Without a Hero”.