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.
Lewis' books help his readers "aim for heaven" and increase their quality of life of earth.
Although Marcus Aurelius helps the poor, he persecutes Christians.
Writers, such as the Grimm brothers, write folk tales for young adults; The Beast of Gevaudan may also influence Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Hound of th...
In 1911, Virginia Stephen marries Leonard Woolf, a Jewish man, but they never have children.
T-Rex is an extinct, North American meat-eating dinosaur first rediscovered in 1902 by Barnum Brown.
Lewis writes A Grief Observed after the death of his wife, and it is one of the most popular books on grief.
Lewis forms "The Inklings," a group of writers including Tolkien, who regularly meet at an Oxford pub to discuss their writing.
Elizabeth King's living will asks her family to end all life support care if she ever reaches a "vegetative state."
Some whites in Mississippi consider blacks an inferior race.
Chapter 40, of "Little Women," is one of the saddest chapters in the story. Louisa May Alcott based this chapter on events which happened to her siste...
Seeing that Protestants in France need help, Charles I of England sends Lord Buckingham to lead the charge.
C.S. Lewis was instrumental as he encourages his friend, J.R.R. Tolkien, to keep writing.
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