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What was the first book printed in English?
The first book printed in English is The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, a prose romance by Raoul Lefevre, printed by William Caxton in 1474 in Bruges, Belgium.
Caxton himself translated it from the French.
Caxton also printed the first dated book printed in English, Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers, published on November 18, 1477.
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Leave a commentWho is killed at the beginning of E. L. Doctorow’s novel Billy Bathgate (1989)?
Bo Weinberg, Dutch Schultz’s former henchman is killed at the beginning of E. L. Doctorow’s novel Billy Bathgate.
By Schultz’s orders, he is thrown off a ship with his feet encased in cement.
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Leave a commentWhat is Toni Morrison’s real name?
The author of the novels Song of Solomon (1977) and Beloved (1987) Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford.
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Leave a commentWhose letters make up Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple (1982)?
Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple is comprised of letters from a black Southern woman named Celie to God, her sister, Nettie, and a missionary in Africa, and of Nettie’s letters to Celie.
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Leave a commentIn what year is C. J. Koch’s The Year of Living Dangerously (1978) set?
C. J. Koch’s The Year of Living Dangerously is set in 1965, the year of Suharto’s overthrow of Sukarno’s Indonesian government.
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Leave a commentWith whom does Kugelmass have an affair in Woody Allen’s short story “The Kugelmass Episode” (1977)?
Kugelmass has an affair with Emma Bovary in Woody Allen’s short story “The Kugelmass Episode”.
The Great Persky projects the bored professor into Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1856) and Emma Bovary into modern Manhattan.
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Leave a commentWhat is the first line of Philip Roth’s The Great American Novel (1973)?
The first line of Philip Roth’s The Great American Novel is “Call me Smitty.”
Through his narrator, Word Smith, Roth not only spoofs Melville, but Hawthorne, Twain, Hemingway, and all other writers who pursued the Great American Novel.
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Leave a commentHow many novels has James Dickey written?
James Dickey has written two novels, Deliverance (1970) and Alnilam (1987).
Dickey also wrote the screenplay for the 1972 movie Deliverance, and appeared in the film as a sheriff.
A poet and critic, Dickey received the National Book Award for poetry in 1966 for Bucketdancer’s Choice (1965).
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What was the first complete English translation of the Bible?