The title of Adam Ant's 3rd and last No 1 hit in 1982 and the title of John Newbery's children's story published in 1765 contain the same three words. It is now used as a derisory term about an excessively virtous or conformist person. What is it?
The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes is a children's story published by John Newbery in London in 1765. The story popularized the phrase "" as a descriptor for an excessively virtuous person or do-gooder. "Goody Two-Shoes" is a variation of the Cinderella story. The fable tells of Goody Two-Shoes, the nickname of a poor orphan girl named Margery Meanwell, who goes through life with only one shoe. When a rich gentleman gives her a complete pair, she is so happy that she tells everyone that she has "two shoes". Later, Margery becomes a teacher
The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River". "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage