Why do the Brunetti family rarely eat pasta and if they do it is usually macaroni cheese is it because they are ITALIAN or is because Dona Leon is American.

The following passage from chapter XVI of the novel Le rouge et le noir (The Red and the Black) by Stendhal refers to "un dicton de province", that is, at some kind of saying or proverb (emphasis mine): Elle quitta le jardin de bonne heure, et alla s'établir dans sa chambre. Mais ne tenant pas à...

Massive spoilers ahead. ! In the novel Waking the Moon, the character Oliver castrates himself and is then taken to a mental ! hospital. After spending a few says in the hospital, he jumps out of a fifth floor window and dies. ! However, at the end of the book, he returns, to all appearances per...