Nathanael West accomplished a few several things in his short life, among them: forging his way into both Tufts and Brown Universities, writing several largely ignored satiric novels, writing several equally ignored screenplays, and running a stop sign en route to the funeral of F. Scott Fitzgeral
The collected folk and fairy tales of writers and linguists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are in most cases now better known for their recent – and largely prettified – adaptations than for the brothers' renditions of them; thus, the gruesomeness of some of their most famous stories –