Locations of events.

What do you associate with the word “pirate”? Far-away treasure islands, buried treasure chests, peg legs, and parrots on the shoulder? That is thanks to the Scottish author R. L. Stevenson, who with his novel created the mother of all pirate stories.

One fateful night Viktor Frankenstein creates his monster – that much most of us know. But who created Frankenstein, the book that is, and why?

As a lyrical form, the sonnet is relatively simple and at the same time extremely versatile, the all-rounder of poems, so to speak. That made it so popular at times that practically everyone wrote them. Including, of course, William Shakespeare.

How many US-American ministers from German descent do you know? There is Henry Kissinger, of course, known for the role during the Cold War. If you can’t think of anyone else, keep on reading. Because he wasn’t the only one.

Samuel Johnson said about this novel you would have to hang yourself if you read it for the plot. Why Richardson’s work, to this day, triggers head shaking and moral outrage but also empathy.