Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 48

... that Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens was originally published in 19 monthly installments between October 1846 and April 1848?

... that Other Voices, Other Rooms is a 1948 novel by Truman Capote which is usually categorized as Southern Gothic?

... that Kim Novak, Julia Foster, Robin Wright Penn, and Alex Kingston have all played Moll Flanders?

... that in 1993, looking back upon his career, Gore Vidal (pictured) wrote that although he had "never seen Myra Breckinridge, I do know that despite the iconic presences of Raquel Welch and Mae West, the film was so bad that the book stopped selling for a decade"?

... that Miniplanner (2000), Babyji (2005) and That Summer in Paris (2006) are novels by Abha Dawesar, an Indian novelist writing in English?

... that morality plays are a type of theatrical allegory in which the protagonist is met by personifications of various moral attributes who try to prompt him to choose a Godly life over one of evil?

... that René is a short novella by Chateaubriand about a desperately unhappy young Frenchman who seeks refuge among the Natchez people of Louisiana?