What is unusual about Samuel Beckett’s 1970 play Breath?
The thirty-second piece Breath by Samuel Beckett has no actors and no dialogue.
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The satire of America, called The Confidence Man, was the last work of Herman Melville published in his lifetime. It was published in 1857 to little public notice. Melville died in 1891.
Who was the first female professional author in English?
Aphra Behn (1640-89), author of the play The Rover (1677) and the novel Oroonoko (1688). She wrote under the pseudonym Astrea.
What family’s and what village’s history are recounted in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970)?
The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the story of seven generations of the Buendia family in the village of Macondo.
How did Thomas Chatterton (1752-70) die?
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Why does Bluebeard kill his wives?
Bluebeard, the title character of Charles Perrault’s story “Barbebleue” (1697) kills his wives for looking into the locked room where he stores the corpses of other disobedient wives. His final wife, however, escapes Bluebeard’s punishment.