What is the name of Rochester’s house in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847)?
The name of Rochester’s house in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is Thornfield Hall.
The name of Rochester’s house in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is Thornfield Hall.
Italian author Carlo Collodi (a.k.a. Carlo Lorenzini) wrote The Adventures of Pinocchio, the popular tale of a puppet who comes to life.
Considered the oldest full novel in the world, The Tale of Genji was written in Japan toward the start of the eleventh century.
Robert Browning (1812-89) and Elizabeth Barrett (1806-61) had to marry secretly because Barrett’s father refused to let his children marry, even though Elizabeth was forty at the time. The secret wedding took place at London’s St. Marylebone Church on September 12, 1846. (Browning was thirty-four.) They lived in Florence for fifteen happy years until her…
The title of Carlyle’s 1833-34 satire on German philosophy Sartor Resartus means “the tailor retailored” in Latin. It comments on the work of the fictitious Diogenes Teufelsdrockh, philosopher of clothes.
The first sentence of Herman Melville’s Moby Diek was “Call me Ishmael.”
Twelfth-century Persian poet Omar Khayyam wrote “A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou” in his Rubaiyat, translated into English by Edward Fitz-Gerald in 1859.