Three novels comprise John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga:
and two “interludes”:
Known in English as Remembrance of Things Past, the novel A la recherche du temps perdu is divided as follows: Du cote de chez Swann (Swann’s Way) A l’ombre des jeunes fines en fleurs (Within a Budding Grove) Le Cote de Guermantes (The Guermantes Way) Sodome et Gomorrhe (Cities of the Plain) La Prisonniere (The…
Judy Blume’s first book was Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, published in 1970.
Sinbad the Sailor was an Iraqi, a merchant shipwrecked after setting sail from Basra, now Iraq. The story of his seven voyages is told in The Thousand and One Nights.
The young man Goethe is the protagonist of two novels, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1795-96) and Wilhelm Meister’s Travels, or The Renunciants (1829).
Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis are father and son. Kingsley Amis’s books include Lucky Jim (1954) and Jake’s Thing (1978); Martin Amis’s novels include Success (1978) and Money (1984).
In The Iliad (ninth century B.C.), Venus is Aeneas’s mother?