What are the books in John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy?
The books in John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy are:
The 42nd Parallel (1930)
1919 (1932)
The Big Money (1936)
The three were first published together in 1937.
The books in John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy are:
The 42nd Parallel (1930)
1919 (1932)
The Big Money (1936)
The three were first published together in 1937.
Isabel Archer’s stepdaughter in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady was Pansy. Her father, Isabel’s husband, is Gilbert Osmond; her mother is Madame Merle.
Alexander Pope’s expression of charity, “To err is human, to forgive divine” appears in An Essay on Criticism (1711).
The American Library Association awarded the first Newbery in 1922 to Hendrik Willem Van Loon for The Story of Mankind (1921).
The Greek ships are enumerated in Book II of Homer’s Iliad.
Mexico’s best-known author Carlos Fuentes (The Death of Artemio Cruz, 1962; The Old Gringo, 1985) first began writing in English, but has since switched to his native language, Spanish.
Bloomsday, the date on which James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) is set, is June 16, 1904.