Interesting Literary Facts - 1. The story of Cinderella first appears in a Chinese book written in the 850s. 2. As a young cadet, Edgar Allan Poe was expelled for reporting to a march wearing nothing but a pair of white gloves. 3. Victor Hugo, author of Les Miserables, liked to write naked. It was said to help with writer’s block. 4. The first novel in English is often held to be Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719). But many dispute this: some claim that Aphra Behn’s short ‘novella’ Oroonoko (1688), about a ‘royal slave’ from West Africa transported to South America, takes the honour. The debate continues. 5. Virgil is rumoured to have held a lavish funeral for a house-fly, which he claimed was his pet. 6. Charles Dickens believed in the supernatural, and he belonged to something called The Ghost Club. 7. John Steinbeck’s original manuscript for Of Mice and Men was eaten by a dog. 8. The Monster in Frankenstein has no name, but Mary Shelley once referred to him as “Adam.”
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 21:24:16 +0000
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