Where is the house in the 1981 novel Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson?

One of the earliest and most influential American magazine editors, Sarah Josepha Hale wrote “Mary Had a Little Lamb” in 1830. In addition to founding the first national women’s magazine, Godey’s Ladies’Magazine, and successfully campaigning to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, she was inspired to write the rhyme by an actual case of a child’s…

Edward Bellamy looking backward from the year 2000 in Looking Backward.

Shangri-La, the setting for James Hilton’s 1933 novel Lost Horizon supposedly has a real-life counterpart in Hunza, Pakistan. The community, which boasts of having the healthiest people in the world, many over 100 years old, is located at the borders of Pakistan, China, and the Soviet Union.

The bank employee Joseph K. is arrested for no apparent reason on his thirtieth birthday Kafka’s The Trial.

The seven virtues are: faith, hope, charity (or love), prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. The first three are called the theological virtues, the last four the cardinal virtues.

The name of the minor-league team in Mark Harris’s Bang the Drum Slowly is The New York Mammoths. The novel’s narrator is Henry Wiggen, star pitcher for the Mammoths.