What is the time span of Samson Agonistes (1671)?
The tragedy Samson Agonistes by John Milton, about Samson’s battle of faith and destruction of the Philistine temple, spans one day.
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What works earned Edith Wharton her Pulitzer prizes?
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What was George Eliot’s real name?
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To what does the title of Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars (1926) refer?
The title of Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars refers to the banner of the Irish Citizens Army, of which O’Casey was once a member. The play concerns members of the army before and during the Easter Rising in 1916.
What is the rainbow in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)?
The rainbow in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow is the arc a rocket makes from launch to target. The novel is set in World War II Europe at the time German V-2 rockets were falling on London.
How many times has Norman Mailer been married?
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