Who wins the silver skates in Hans Brinker?
It is not Hans Brinker who wins the silver skates in Hans Brinker, but his sister Gretel, according to the 1865 novel by Mary Mapes Dodge.
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Who wrote, “Go and catch a falling star,/Get with child a mandrake root”?
John Donne (1572?-1631) wrote, “Go and catch a falling star,/Get with child a mandrake root”, in the opening lines to the poem, “Song,” which was published posthumously, in 1633.
Who is the hero of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952)?
The hero of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man has no name. He is a young man from the South who finds his way to a hidden existence in a coal cellar in New York.