The name Swift gave to his race of rational horses in Gulliver’s Travels is spelt Houyhnhnms.
Their subjects, a race of nasty human-like creatures, had an easier name: Yahoos.
The first book printed in English is The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, a prose romance by Raoul Lefevre, printed by William Caxton in 1474 in Bruges, Belgium. Caxton himself translated it from the French. Caxton also printed the first dated book printed in English, Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers, published on November…
The Dr. Seuss book that has sold the most copies is Green Eggs and Ham, published in 1960, it has sold over 6 million copies. Another 1960 book, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, has sold nearly as many.
The full title of Oliver Twist is Oliver Twist, or, The Parish Boy’s Progress.
James Joyce married Nora Barnacle in 1931, just ten years before his death. They had lived together since 1904.
The subtitle of Melville’s short story “Bartle by the Scrivener” is “A Story of Wall Street.”
Italian author Carlo Collodi (a.k.a. Carlo Lorenzini) wrote The Adventures of Pinocchio, the popular tale of a puppet who comes to life.