Sentences with phrase «character of the novella»

Each design is based on the main character of that novella, and the lavender ribbon shared between the covers represents a character from the series.

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For instance, several of the novellas and short stories were told from the point of view of secondary characters (most notably, Kiernan, but also Saul and his henchman Simon), giving the reader a glimpse into their lives separate from Kate.

Zak Hilditch's adaptation of Stephen King's novella of the same name feels overlong or maybe underfed, fleshing out the character's mental deterioration in handsome but unsurprising detail.

Ian McEwan's 2007 novella On Chesil Beach, about a young couple's disastrous honeymoon in southern England circa 1962, presents a classic adaptation problem: The book runs less than 40,000 words, the prose largely examines the characters» interiority, and the majority of the action takes place over the course of an...

All three of these characters are also designed to echo, respectively, Master - at - Arms Claggart, Captain Vere, and Billy Budd in Melville's novella.

Expanding on themes of humanity and identity native to Phillip K. Dick's novella «Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep», Blade Runner 2049 both expands a world wherein humanoid androids and their homosapien masters co-exist while narrowing it down to a small ensemble of meaningful characters, all who have their part to play.

Lastly, there are several character posters for The Mortal Instruments, the adaptation of the first novella, «City of Bones.»

Had I swept in for a single day of Señorita Mielke's unit on Gabriel García Márquez's novella, Crónica de una muerte anunciada, I'd never have known how lessons on vocabulary, character analysis, and cultural context were all building toward the students» mock trial of the Vicario brothers.

All lessons are fully differentiated by colour Purple = lower ability Blue = middle ability Yellow = higher ability Red = most able These resources cover the following areas of the novel in chapter 4: - Context - Analysis development and practice - Teacher, self and peer assessment opportunities - Character and theme presentation - interleaving: the weather for effect in the novella and in the power and conflict poetry

All lessons are fully differentiated by colour Purple = lower ability Blue = middle ability Yellow = higher ability Red = most able These resources cover the following areas of the novel in chapter 1: - Context - Analysis of writer's methods - Teacher, self and peer assessment opportunities - Character and theme presentation - Imaginative writing opportunity - Interleaving: duality in the novella and in Extract from the prelude

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Mr. Tall By Tony Earley Back Bay • $ 14.99 • ISBN 9780316246149 In his first collection in 20 years, the author of the lluminous novel Jim the Boy offers a novella and six short stories that showcase his talent for capturing the rhythms and characters of Southern life.

The description doesn't focus on both sides of the conflict in my story, since the novella only follows certain characters.

Landor's reading of this lesser - known Austen novella showcases the author's rapier (and subversive) wit and her strong ability to create character out of dialogue alone.

The last word on animals in stories for adults however, is perhaps owed to Franz Kafka, famous for turning his main character into an insect, as in the novella Metamorphosis, but also someone with a little known penchant for writing short stories with a non-human point of view.

This novella gives us a great view into GySgt Bobbie Draper, one of my favorite Expanse characters, and her life at home on Mars following the events described in Caliban's War.

Three novellas from a master of the genre offer characters that have staying power: a wealthy 67 - year - old man, describing events leading up to the drowning of a younger friend; a Native American tracking a double - dealing friend to recover a clan relic, his stolen bearskin; and a middle - aged writer of formulaic biographies who glibly narrates his tribulations.

The Wicasa Wakan in Lakota Native Culture In «Brown Dog Redux,» the second novella in Jim Harrison's The Farmer's Daughter, an enigmatic quality surrounds the character of Charles Eats Horses.

The World does not include characters, scenes, events, themes, or plots that are unique to derivative works outside of Kindle Worlds (such as movies and television shows) based on Carly Phillips novels, novellas, and / or short stories.

«The layers of complexity in a novella must serve multiple tasks, both driving the story forward and defining the characters... Novellas are great on an ereader, perfect for any time you want a quick read.»

I also didn't have to write the story and develop the characters while thinking in the back of my mind, «It's not long enough to be a book,» or think, «No one is going to pay bookstore prices for such a short novella.»

In these linked novellas in which characters walk out the back door of one story and into the next, love is «dirty» - tangled up with need, power, boredom, ego, fear, and fantasy.

Try telling Nicholas Sparks you'd like to see more books featuring his side characters and see if he jumps out of bed to write a novella about some character who appears on page twelve then disappears forever.

Often laugh - out - loud funny, this moving and simply told novella of two Mongolian brothers learning to fit in to a British school tugs at the heart - a unique story of immigration both fierce in its telling and magical in its characters.

The new prequel novella to Isaac Marion's NYT bestselling novel WARM BODIES, THE NEW HUNGER is an excellent, if gruesomely poetic, rendering of what happened to the main characters before they met.

The book is comprised of four short stories and six novellas, all loosely connected to each other through characters and all organized around the theme of knowing when your life is no longer working and having the insight and courage to pick another direction.

Still, when you say the novella character was kicking around in your head I would assume you weren't actually writing any of the stories down.

This collection of novellas, scenes, and other goodies is for those craving a bit more of the characters and drama of the Mindjack series.

The story itself is compact and focused, and the novella's larger sci - fi elements tend to fade away in the individual, human interactions between the small cast of characters.

Weeks before that, I had completed a short story set in the same world as The Gertrude Threshold with only two of the final novella's characters.

In fact, many authors are publishing novellas containing a set of characters and then writing a novel with fully - conceptualized storylines and conflicts using those same characters.

Go to Victorian San Francisco Books to learn about the first five books in the series, Maids of Misfortune, Uneasy Spirits, Bloody Lessons, Deadly Proof, and Pilfered Promises as well as the novellas, Violet Vanquishes a Villain and Kathleen Catches a Killer, and the four individual short stories, which are based on minor characters from the series.

For my Fab Five readers who didn't want the series to end, I wrote a bonus novella, crossing over some of my characters from the «Fabs» series with the characters in Paige's world.

Earl of Plaid is a digital publishing house focusing exclusively on character driven novellas.

I had always envisioned The CHRONOS Files as a three - novel series with two shorter novellas in between, written from the perspective of other characters.

In this series of interconnected novellas, Andre Dubus III tells four stories of sex, betrayal and love, showcasing the best and worst aspects of relationships, bringing his characters to life with vivid detail and deep empathy.

Its denizens are conversationally stunted in comparison to Morrowind, where almost every character delivers a novella's worth of exposition via written text.

The Battle for Azeroth Collector's Edition includes all the Digital Deluxe Edition goodies (exclusive mounts, a pet, and a character boost to level 110) as well as an Alliance / Horde «storybook» novella, a shiny double - sided Mark of Allegiance medal, an exclusive soundtrack, and, of course, a big ol' box to keep all your swag in.

Using theory, philosophers, current affairs and pop cultural figures as alibis to help her write, and casts of arguing characters to help her perform, Spooner produces plotless novellas, disjunctive theatre plays, looping monologues and musical arrangements to stage the movement and behaviour of speech.

Using theory, philosophers, pop music, current affairs and corporate rhetoric as alibis to write, and casts of arguing characters to help her perform, Spooner produces plotless novellas, disjunctive scripts, looping monologues and musical arrangements to stage the automation of speech, outsourced subjectivity, mutated human resources and the short - circuiting of language as it transforms into labour.