While doing some research for an answer, I discovered the Redwall series book Marlfox. At the end of the book, there is a meta-note: Curtain! This narrative has been edited by Florian Dugglewoof Wilffachop, Actor Manager Impresario. Who insists that the entire tale is a drama, which he will be l...

Both The Kid and Blevins are not evil but at the same time extremely dangerous young men (of roughly the same age) on their own due to the death of their fathers. It seems pretty likely that if Blevins had been transported to the less-civilized time of almost exactly a century before the time of ...

Is there an English translation of the Onomasticon by Julius Pollux of Naucratis?

In Inkdeath, the third book in the Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke, Resa uses seeds that turn the user into an animal. In Resa's case, she turns into a swift: It was easy to fly, so easy. The skill of it came with the body, with every feather and every delicate bone. For the seeds had turned ...

Wikipedia describes Mem and Zin as a Kurdish classic love story written down in 1692 (...). In other words, it was written down roughly two-and-a-half centuries after Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. With this in mind, it may seem silly to ask when the Mem and Zin was first print...