What is Daisy Miller’s real name in Henry James’s short novel Daisy Miller?
Daisy Miller’s real name is Annie Miller.
She appears in Henry James’s short novel Daisy Miller (1878).
Daisy Miller’s real name is Annie Miller.
She appears in Henry James’s short novel Daisy Miller (1878).
Bo Weinberg, Dutch Schultz’s former henchman is killed at the beginning of E. L. Doctorow’s novel Billy Bathgate. By Schultz’s orders, he is thrown off a ship with his feet encased in cement.
The subtitle of Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo is A Tale of the Seaboard.
Finnegan in Finnegans Wake is an Irish hod carrier who dies after a fall. At his wake, he is momentarily returned to life at the mention of the word “whiskey.” The name also refers to legendary Irish hero Finn MacCool, who is supposed to “wake again” someday to save Ireland.
It is estimated that the first edition of one of the great American poems, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sold no more than three dozen copies when it was first published in 1855.
Archibald Macleish (1892-1982) said, “A poem should not mean/But be” in Ars Poetica.
In Dostoyevsky’s 1880 novel, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov has four sons: Dmitri, Ivan, Alyosha, and Smerdyakov, a bastard. Dmitri is the son accused of killing his father.