Who is the unhappy Werther’s beloved in Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)?
The unhappy Werther’s beloved in Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is Lotte.
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Who created Babar the Elephant?
Jean de Brunhoff created Babar the Elephant, in stories beginning with The Story of Babar (1933). De Brunhoff’s son Laurent continued the series.
When was Longinus’s critical treatise On the Sublime published in Europe?
Longinus’s critical treatise On the Sublime was not published in Europe until 1554. The first-century essay was then translated into several languages and gained wide prominence, eventually influencing the poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
In Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952), what fish does Santiago catch?
In Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952), Santiago catches a marlin.
Who first used the expression “the Almighty Dollar”?
Washington Irving is believed to have originated the expression “the Almighty Dollar” in Wolfert’s Roost (1855).
How do you spell the name Swift gave to his race of rational horses in Gulliver’s Travels (1726)?
The name Swift gave to his race of rational horses in Gulliver’s Travels is spelt Houyhnhnms. Their subjects, a race of nasty human-like creatures, had an easier name: Yahoos.
How are Gargantua and Pantagruel related?
In Rabelais’s French satire Gargantua and Pantagruel (1533), Gargantua is Pantagruel’s father. Both are giants who go on humorous adventures.