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 her cancer was so advanced by the time it was detected, Joy Davidman Lewis had a remarkable remission.
In The Chronicles of Narnia, C.
When C.S. ("Jack") Lewis was nine years old, he lost his mother to cancer.
District 12 - where Katniss and Prim Everdeen live - has an area called the Seam.
Written in 1866, Crime and Punishment features the city of St.
"A novel needs a hero," says the "Underground Man.
In a life-long struggle, Dostoevsky thought about whether God exists.
In this scene from Kenneth Branagh's version of Henry V, released in 1989, we see the English king and his men assessing both French and English losse...
It's the Ides of March, and Julius Caesar receives a warning from the shadows. See an animated version of Shakespeare's famous play.
Given where he was living, in a Siberian forced-labor camp, Ivan Denisovich had a pretty good day.
Facing work in a new location, which has no shelter and no way to keep warm at all, Ivan Denisovich - prisoner C854 - welcomes being ill.
As the zeks endure a seemingly endless march, the sounds of their feet on the snow tell us how cold it really is.
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