We’ve often posted about children’s literature and the fascinating facts behind some of the most popular children’s authors, such as Lewis Carroll and Charles Kingsley. Now, as part of our Five Fascinating Facts series, we’d like to offer you five of the most interesting things about all of children’s literature. […]
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Guest Blog: Miloš Crnjanski, the Serbian Modernist Poet
By Luna Gradinšćak There is one fact that I gladly used to mention in my notes, works and conversations. The first time I ever read that fact was in a phenomenal book by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas. The book speaks about something that one day will be clear to all of […]
Five Fascinating Facts about John Steinbeck
By Dr Oliver Tearle John Steinbeck (1902-68) is one of the major writers of American literature. His novels and short stories, which include Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, and East of Eden, are some of the most remarkable works of twentieth-century fiction. But what are […]
Five Fascinating Facts about Henry James
By Viola van de Sandt 1. He had no regrets. In a letter to fellow novelist Hugh Walpole, James wrote in 1913: ‘We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art . . . what we are talking about – & the only way to know it is […]
The Longest Words in Literature
What’s the longest ever word in literature? The longest word in the English language (leaving literature to one side for a moment) is a staggering 189,819 letters long. Or rather, it is and it isn’t. The chemical formula for the protein otherwise known as titin runs to 189,819 letters, but […]