As of August 21, 2023, the entry for the sixteenth century scholar (and namesake of a famous character in Eliot's Middlemarch) Isaac Casaubon does not yet mention—in the "Literary Appearances" section—that he is discussed at length in Nicholson Baker's novel Room Temperature.
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As of August 21, 2023, the entry for the sixteenth century scholar (and namesake of a famous character in Eliot's Middlemarch ) Isaac Ca...
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We all recognize the image: the evil boss/magnate has a trapdoor in front of his desk, through which he can drop employees and labor agitato...
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As of November 19, 2018, the entry for Willa Cather's 1923 novel One of Ours mentions that Hemingway once deprecated the realism of its...
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As of August 21, 2023, the entry for the sixteenth century scholar (and namesake of a famous character in Eliot's Middlemarch ) Isaac Ca...