What is the subtitle of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850)?

The Dublin theater known as the Abbey Theatre dedicated to presenting Irish drama opened in 1904. Its directors included William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory. Destroyed by fire in 1951, the theater reopened in 1966.

For nearly ten years the short story writer Guy de Maupassant apprenticed himself to Flaubert to learn to write fiction.

Mary McCarthy’s 1963 novel The Group concerns eight women students at Vassar. Their names are: Dottie, Helena, Kay, Lakey, Libby, Pokey, Polly, and Priss.

Henry David Thoreau wrote “That government is best which governs least”, in his essay, “Civil Disobedience” (1849).

Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for The Second World War.

The Trojan priest Laocoon who was killed by sea serpents is a character in Vergil’s Aeneid (c. 19 B.C.).