Portal:Literature/Did you know/17


 * ... that the John Steinbeck play adaptation Of Mice and Men debuted on Broadway while the novel of the same name was still on the best seller lists?
 * ... that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Eminent Characters series includes: a lawyer, a speaker, a Unitarian, a general, a rebel, a betrayer, a poet, an actress, a philosopher, a friend, a playwright and a lord?
 * ... that The Insider, a roman à clef, was Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao's first novel?
 * ... that a possible source for the poem The Fox, the Wolf and the Husbandman, by the 15th-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson, was Aesop's Fables as published by William Caxton?
 * ... that Maria Konopnicka poem Rota became so popular it was seen as an unofficial anthem of Poland?