By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) 1. Her most famous novel, Frankenstein, is widely considered the first science fiction novel. Brian Aldiss certainly thinks so. It’s worth mentioning here that two other leading science (fiction) writers, Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov, argued that the honour of ‘first science-fiction novel’ should go […]
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The Best Sourced Dorothy Parker Quotes
10 of the best quotes from Dorothy Parker and where they first appeared We’ve compiled a list of ten of the wittiest and wisest quotations from the Dorothy Parker oeuvre, as well as some of her pithiest and most memorable one-liners. Many quotations have been attributed to Parker, but here […]
Jules Verne: Author or Fortune Teller?
By Spencer Blohm Jules Verne is one of the most influential and celebrated writers in the history of science fiction. But his novels contain more than just entertainment. His wild imagination and propensity for thorough research led not only to enthralling adventure stories, but some eerily accurate predictions in the […]
Five Fascinating Facts about Sir Walter Scott
Five fun facts about the life and work of Scottish author Sir Walter Scott 1. The word ‘glamour’ is first found in his work. ‘Glamour’ is a Scottish corruption of ‘grammar’ (‘corruption’ is the linguistic term for when one word morphs into another), and was introduced into English literature by […]
10 Great Words That Describe People’s Annoying Habits
The best words for describing people and their annoying habits The subject of this post is somewhat niche, we’ll admit, but here at Interesting Literature we love the English language and the fact that at some point in its rich history a word has been invented for just about everything, or so […]