To tone your thighs fast - three words ladies - squats and walking lunges. I took a fitness bootcamp for women last fall. We met three times a week and these two exercises were at the core of each meeting. My husband noticed a difference after week one.
Don Quijote de la Manca by the Spanish author Cervantes has such a role in the Western literary tradition, that it's hard to mention anything posterior to it as the first fiction novel. Jerry mentioned Moll Flanders. That's a nice pick: the very novel that combined literature of roguery and picaresque novel.
It was through her painting that she began writing for children. She wrote and illustrated an art appreciation book. Although it was never published, she discovered her love for writing children's books. Ella Enchanted was her first children's book published and it received the Newbery Honor in 1998. She began writing the book in a writing class, but she could not think of a good plot. She finally decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot.