We currently have tags for a few authors (or groups of authors) that wrote under pseudonyms, such as lemony-snicket and franklin-w-dixon. In the case of Snicket, the author has written other works under his real name, Daniel Handler. The same holds true for many other authors, including some who ...
Why did Upton Sinclair decide to call his novel Oil?
Does the title connote some metaphor or is it just the literal meaning of the word the writer chose?
In the Les Misérables musical, there's a song "Master of the House", in which the inkeeper sings about how he essentially scams all of his customers into paying much more than they expected. There's one section that goes like this:
Everybody loves a landlord
Everybody's bosom friend
I do whateve...
I'm reading online Salah Saadalla's translation of the Kurdish classic Mem and Zin. The early chapters aren't part of the main story: two chapters addressed to God, two to the prophet Mohammed, two about the Kurdish nation, and then a prologue. But even these contain some interesting content and ...
How is Bradley described in The Black Prince? He mentions that he is going to write his own story from his point of view at that time. He accepts that he is wrong in the past. However, his acceptance of this seems like positivity to the reader. What else can be said for him?
