Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 8
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... that in Jules Feiffer's (pictured) 1967 stage play, Little Murders, an average American family ends up as snipers, randomly shooting at pedestrians from a window of their New York City apartment?
... that Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, Mark Twain's A Tramp Abroad, and Émile Zola's Nana were all first published in 1880?
... that Samuel Pepys's Diary is an important account of London in the 1660s?
... that Baa Baa, Black Sheep is an old nursery rhyme, but also the title of a short story by Rudyard Kipling and of Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington's autobiography?
... that the Pre-Raphaelites, founded in 1848, were a group of English painters, poets and critics who wanted to reform art by rejecting what they considered to be the mechanistic approach adopted by the Mannerist artists who followed Raphael and Michelangelo?
... that in Part Two of his Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin gives a list of thirteen virtues, and that he explains one of them, humility, with the advice, "Imitate Jesus and Socrates."?
... that Hemingway's 1929 anti-war novel, A Farewell to Arms, was filmed in 1932 and remade in 1957 starring Rock Hudson?