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In Book I, the Achaean troubles begin with King Agamemnon's dishonorable, unkingly behavior—first, by threatening the priest Chryses (1.11), then, by aggravating them in disrespecting Achilles, by confiscating Briseis from him (1.171).
Book 1: [5] Quintus dispenses with the customary invocation of the Muses in order to make his first line continue from the end of the Iliad. Book 1 tells of the arrival of the proud Amazon queen Penthesileia, the welcome she receives from the hard-pressed Trojans, her initial successes in battle, and her defeat by Achilles, who kills Thersites for mocking his admiration for the beautiful victim.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. It was published in July 1960 and became instantly successful. It was published in July 1960 and became instantly successful. In the United States, it is widely read in high schools and middle schools.
Number of years that it took Harper Lee to write To Kill a Mockingbird And just for kicks: 1: To Kill a Mockingbird's ranking by an organization of British librarians on a list of books that ...
Harper Lee was writing Go Set a Watchman in January 1957, and sold the manuscript to the publisher J. B. Lippincott in October 1957. She then continued to work on the manuscript for the next two years, submitting revised manuscripts to her literary agents. At some point in that two-year period, Lee renamed her book To Kill a Mockingbird. Some ...
Harper Lee wrote the novel loosely based on memories of her childhood in the rural South. Lee’s father was a lawyer. Rural small towns can be very opinionated and clannish.
The Epic Cycle (Ancient Greek: Ἐπικὸς Κύκλος, romanized: Epikòs Kýklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria, the Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony.
Here are 11 quotes to remember Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird author Nelle Harper Lee by. ... 10 favorite books of 2024: ‘Martyr!,’ ‘Intermezzo’ and 'James' top the list.