Who created the Hardy Boys?
Edward Stratemeyer, under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon created the Hardy Boys.
Edward Stratemeyer, under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon created the Hardy Boys.
“Mistah Kurtz—he dead,” from Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness is the quotation at the start of T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men”.
The French author of Consuelo (1842), George Sand was born Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin.
Three novels comprise John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga: 1. The Man of Property (1906) 2. In Chancery (1920) 3. To Let (1921) and two “interludes”: 1. Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1922) 2. Awakenings (1922)
No, they used male pseudonyms: Charlotte was Currer Bell; Emily was Ellis Bell; and Anne was Acton Bell.
The interminable law case in Dickens’s Bleak House was Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, a case stemming from a dispute about distribution of an estate.
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.