What is the subtitle of Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo (1904)?
The subtitle of Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo is A Tale of the Seaboard.
The subtitle of Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo is A Tale of the Seaboard.
William Blake wrote “O rose, thou art sick” in “The Sick Rose” (1794).
Odysseus dies in the South Pole in Nikos Kazantzakis’s The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel.
The book describes the epidemic of bubonic plague that ravaged England in 1665. Defoe’s fictionalized account was published in 1722. Defoe himself was only five years old when the plague hit London.
In 1789, The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown was published. This first American novel, written by the son of a Boston clockmaker, concerned seduction, incest, rape, and suicide.
The earliest use of flashback in Western literature was in Homer’s Odyssey. Most of Odysseus’s adventures are recounted in a flashback set within a larger narrative frame. Odysseus tells his story at the court of the Phaeacians.
The subtitle of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death.