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Stephenie Meyer's four-book Twilight series has an unofficial and lesser-known companion novel, Midnight Sun, which retells the story of the first novel Twilight from Edward's point of view instead of Bella's. Meyer never completed this book, but a draft version was leaked on the internet and has...
In 19th century fiction, there are a lot of references to moneylenders as "Jews". For example, in "Framley Parsonage", by Anthony Trollope, Lord Lufton says "the pocket-books of the Jews are stuffed full of his dishonoured papers".
Would 19th century readers have assumed that the moneylenders w...
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Quotes have a way of taking on a life of their own. These lines, the last three lines of Frost's The Road Not Taken, have been endlessly quoted by many people: as epigraphs in th...
In The Amber Spyglass, we're told that the Consistorial Court has developed doctrines of "preemptive penance and absolution":
"Father President," said Father Gomez at once, "I have done preemptive penance every day of my adult life. I have studies, I have trained--"
The President held up...
