The Parallel Lives (first century A.D.) pairs biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, such as the orators Demosthenes and Cicero.
The book provided background for some of Shakespeare’s plays, including Julius Caesar.
Four new Barbara Pym novels have been published since her death in 1980: 1. A Few Green Leaves (1980) 2. An Unsuitable Attachment (1982) 3. Crampton Hodnet (1985) 4. An Acadeniic Question (1986) – A memoir, A Very Private Eye, was published in 1984.
There were two sets of twins: Bert and Nan and their younger siblings, Freddie and Flossie. The series about them began with The Bobbsey Twins (1904) by Laura Lee Hope.
The Old Testament was written in Hebrew. It dates from the thirteenth to the first century B.C. The New Testament was written in Greek in the first century A . D.
Dylan Thomas died at age thirty-nine in 1953 in New York City after drinking eighteen straight whiskeys in a bar and lapsing into a coma.
Edward King, a college friend from Cambridge who had become a clergyman was commemorated in Milton’s elegy Lycidas. He drowned in 1637.
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)