What are the seven deadly sins by Saint Thomas Aquinas?
As set forth by scholastic theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274), the seven deadly sins are:
anger, covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, and sloth.
As set forth by scholastic theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274), the seven deadly sins are:
anger, covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, and sloth.
The names of the ghosts in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw are Peter Quint and Miss Jessel, the former valet and governess at the estate called Bly.
Phineas was the teenager who dies in John Knowles’s A Separate Peace. Gene, the novel’s narrator, survives to tell the tale. The two are students at the Devon School in New Hampshire during World War II.
Yes, there a real Baron Miinchausen. Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Miinchausen (1720-1797), a German adventurer, is believed to have served in the Russian army against the Turks. He was known for exaggerating his exploits. Satirical stories about him were told by Rodolf Erich Raspe in Baron Miinchausen, Narrative of his Marvellous Travels (1785).
It is not Hans Brinker who wins the silver skates in Hans Brinker, but his sister Gretel, according to the 1865 novel by Mary Mapes Dodge.
Stradlater was the rich and conceited roommate of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye.
Edgar Allan Poe Roderick Usher, in “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839).