Great novels are often connected-to (or based-on) real-life events. It's fun to search-for (and uncover) those connections. This Collection features fictional stories with real-life tie-ins.
Although no one can be totally sure, and the author of "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" denies it, Amos Pampaloni may be the real person upon whom the fic...
In20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne introducesCaptain Nemoand theNautilus, a submarine.
Cardinal Richelieu's objective is to diminish Protestant freedom and nobility independence.
Chicago reporter Maurine Watkins, who covers the courts, turns two real murders into a play for a college class.
Maureen Watkinss play Chicago appears on Broadway in 1926 and later is the basis for the Bob Fosse musical.
Child miners suffer from horrible conditions and have health problems including stunted growth.
Today child miners still work in some countries, but laws now protect them in the U.S. and the U.K.
In his "Nutcracker" story, E.T.A. Hoffman begins his tale on Christmas Eve. Lots of surprises are in store for the children!
To fairly assess the impact of Dicken's "A Christmas Carol," on British culture, we have to examine what Christmas was like, in the UK, before Dickens...
Clarissa Vaughan, a character from The Hours, shares her first name and her love of a man who commits suicide with Woolf's title character.
Before the Hawaiian Islands were accidentally located by Captain Cook, clothing, as in most cultures, was different in Hawai'i depending on one's soci...
Coming of age traditions in Hawaiian royal history.
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