What is the subtitle of Melville’s short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853)?
The subtitle of Melville’s short story “Bartle by the Scrivener” is “A Story of Wall Street.”
The subtitle of Melville’s short story “Bartle by the Scrivener” is “A Story of Wall Street.”
The last poem of Lyrical Ballads is Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey.”
The bank employee Joseph K. is arrested for no apparent reason on his thirtieth birthday Kafka’s The Trial.
Henry David Thoreau wrote “That government is best which governs least”, in his essay, “Civil Disobedience” (1849).
Kugelmass has an affair with Emma Bovary in Woody Allen’s short story “The Kugelmass Episode”. The Great Persky projects the bored professor into Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1856) and Emma Bovary into modern Manhattan.
The play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams opened in New York in 1947 and ran for 855 performances.
The first part of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls is recognized as a comic masterpiece, but the second part never saw the light of day. Convinced by the radical priest Father Matthew Konstantinovsky that literature was sinful, Gogol (1809-52) burned the manuscript of Part Two in 1852. He died a few days later.