The first complete English translation of the Bible was the Bible of 1380, translated into a Midland dialect by Nicholas of Hereford and others.
It is often called the Wyclif Bible, though theologian John Wyclif (c. 1320-84) did not work on it.
In the 1886 work by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Henry Jekyll is the London doctor who creates the potion that turns him into Edward Hyde.
Only Good Deeds goes with Everyman to face Judgment. In the 1495 morality play, Everyman is deserted by Beauty, Strength, Discretion, and Five Wits.
In an 1895 article in North American Review, Twain said that James Fenimore Cooper violated 18 of the 19 rules for romantic fiction in The Deer-slayer. On one page alone, Cooper is said to have scored a record-breaking 114 offenses out of a possible 115. Some of the rules Cooper broke included: — “That a…
George Orwell’s real name was Eric Arthur Blair.
None. Hector’s parents, Priam and Hecuba, are both human.
Why Marry? by Jesse L. Williams won the first Pulitzer Prize in 1918.