How long is the time span covered in The Mezzanine (1988)?
The novel The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker tells the story of a single lunch hour.
Much of the book focuses on an escalator ride.
The novel The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker tells the story of a single lunch hour.
Much of the book focuses on an escalator ride.
According to the Book of Genesis, Ishmael is the son of Abraham and Hagar.
The first and middle names of the twentieth-century English critic I.A. Richards are Ivor Armstrong.
Ernest Hemingway’s first book was Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923); it was published in France in a small edition. His first book published in the United States was In Our Time (1925), an expanded edition of the version published in France in 1924.
Ezra Mannon, a New England general returning from the Civil War represents Agamemnon in Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra. His wife Christine represents Clytemnestra.
Judas received thirty pieces of silver for betraying Christ. In Matthew’s Gospel, Judas throws away the money and hangs himself after the betrayal.
Longinus’s critical treatise On the Sublime was not published in Europe until 1554. The first-century essay was then translated into several languages and gained wide prominence, eventually influencing the poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.