What are the seven virtues?
The seven virtues are:
faith, hope, charity (or love), prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.
The first three are called the theological virtues, the last four the cardinal virtues.
The seven virtues are:
faith, hope, charity (or love), prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.
The first three are called the theological virtues, the last four the cardinal virtues.
Paul Gauguin’s life is the basis for W. Somerset Maugham’s novel The Moon and Sixpence (1919). In the novel, Charles Strickland is a London stockbroker who leaves his family to paint in the South Seas.
The full name of Antonia in Willa Cather’s novel My Antoniais is Antonia Shimerda, eldest daughter of a Bohemian family in Black Hawk, Nebraska.
There were two sets of twins: Bert and Nan and their younger siblings, Freddie and Flossie. The series about them began with The Bobbsey Twins (1904) by Laura Lee Hope.
The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction was Edith Wharton (1862-1937) in 1921 for The Age of Innocence.
Faust’s soul is rescued by a choir of angels at the end of Goethe’s Faust (1808).
Hemingway’s alter ego Nick Adams, the central figure of In Our Time (1924), makes his first appearance in “Indian Camp” (1923).