The Cask of Amontillado Poe may have borrowed Montresor's family motto "Nemo me impune lacessit" from James Fenimore Cooper, who used the line in "The Last of the Mohicans" (1826). Poe wrote his tale, however, as a response to his personal rival Thomas Dunn English. Poe and English had several confrontations, usually revolving around literary caricatures of one another. Poe thought that one of English's writings went a bit too far, and successfully sued the other man's editors at "The New York Mirror" for libel in 1846. That year English published a revenge-based novel called "1844, or, The Power of the S.F." Its plot
The Last Man Who Knew Everything medicine (e.g., Young's rule), linguistics, and Egyptology. The book was published in hardback by Pi Press in the United States and by Oneworld Publications in the United Kingdom. It subsequently appeared in paperback editions. It has been featured on the BBC. The book has been reviewed in a number of publications and online, including: The Last Man Who Knew Everything The Last Man Who Knew Everything (2006), written by Andrew Robinson, is a biography of the British polymath, Thomas Young (1773–1829). This biography is subtitled "Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the