Sentences with phrase «classic novels for»

Besides picking up bundles of classic novels for a few bucks, many new books are discounted within a year of their release.
Flip through the pages of your favorite classic novels for more baby name inspiration.
You can even get Alexa to read out an entire Christmas classic novel for free.

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GQ is taking some heat for a new article called «21 Books You Don't Have to Read,» in which they included the Bible in a list of classic novels they've...
Although generally categorized as a novel for young readers, this Newbery award - winner and science fiction classic, grapple with adult - sized questions about the nature of God and the existence of evil.
DuVernay is adapting Madeleine L'Engle's classic children's novel A Wrinkle in Time for Disney, a sci - fi story known for its Christian undertones.
Georg Lukacs, for instance, famously argued that «the novel is the epic of a world that has been abandoned by God» [Lukacs 1971, 88] while Peter Faulkner claimed that it was the «one secular literary form» [Faulkner 1976,11], following the argument of Ian Watt's classic The Rise of the Novel [Watts 1novel is the epic of a world that has been abandoned by God» [Lukacs 1971, 88] while Peter Faulkner claimed that it was the «one secular literary form» [Faulkner 1976,11], following the argument of Ian Watt's classic The Rise of the Novel [Watts 1Novel [Watts 1957].
You see, the devil is a sneaky enemy willing to use anything to draw naive church goers into the fiery gates of heck (sorry for the strong language, but this is serious): Harry Potter novels; the Smurfs; classic rock records that unveil hidden messages when played backwards; non-Harvest-related Halloween events; that disrespectful little jerk Bart Simpson.
This cookbook offers recipes for dozens of classic treats like oatmeal cookies, carrot cake and pecan pie — but often with novel twists: pineapple and coconut swirl through the carrot cake, the pecan pie takes the form of a brownie and the oatmeal cookies are fashioned into «crisps.»
For every one novel / exciting / complicated / experimental / trendy recipe I cook, I probably have ten go - to, fool proof classics in my repertoire that I've whittled down to perfection.
The topic was the future of higher education in Europe, and the castle — a majestic but confusing maze of structures that inspired Franz Kafka's classic novel about modern alienation and bureaucracy — served as a metaphor for the Kafkaesque labyrinth facing students who want to transfer degrees or credits between colleges in different European nations.
Classics, vintage - inspired novels and just old - fashioned good reads as well as books for mental health and personal growth.
Rachel Weisz stars in this adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier «s classic novel about an Englishman (Sam Claflin) who plots the murder of his cousin, only to fall for her charms.
Based on Humphrey Cobb's antiwar novel, this classic war movie starred Kirk Douglas as a French colonel in World War I who defends three doomed soldiers about to be executed for their alleged cowardice in a battle lost by an incompetent and morally bankrupt general (Adolphe Menjou).
John Carter is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present.
In this reimagining of the classic novel, an unhinged submarine captain searches fanatically for the prehistoric whale that took his leg.
Charlotte Brontë's classic Victorian novel, Jane Eyre, has been adapted for TV and film multiple times, but that did not deter director Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) and screenwriter Moira Buffini (Tamara Drewe) from giving it another go.
What You Need To Know: In a year where there's plenty of other movies involving battles with aliens for the fate of the earth («Oblivion,» «After Earth «-RRB-, there's one that's going back to a lauded classic novel of the genre, with the first adaptation of Orson Scott Card «s beloved book «Ender's Game.»
In addition to the regular Paper Mario aesthetics, the game also uses many novel character, enemy, and background designs, including a fully pixelated world and the use of sprites from the classic Super Mario Bros. for certain techniques.
One of the landmarks of silent cinema, this adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel was also the film that firmly cemented Lon Chaney's standing as a superstar as well as set the stage for Universal Pictures to continue producing definitive horror classics throughout the 1930s and 1940s.
His name has been used in the game's promotion by its developers and publisher, Microsoft, to trade both on the renown for his classic novel, Ender's Game, as well his 2006 book, Empire, which was based on the same fiction as Shadow Complex: a Right - Wing - vs.
Warner Bros has unveiled the first trailer for the new take on the horror classic It, adapted from Stephen King's novel, about the sadistic, evil clown who haunts a town in Maine and takes their children.
Check the Electric Literature Foundation at http://elf.chaoscafe.com for the text of many classic novels, by several authors (including Jane Austen), in a searchable form.
As obvious a candidate for screen treatment as Dicken's classic novel is, there rather surprisingly hasn't been a traditional theatrical version of the story since David Lean's 1946 adaptation, a peerless achievement in the eyes of many.
An international trailer has been released for director Mark Osborne's The Little Prince, an animated adaption of Antoine de Saint - Exupéry's classic children's novel.
HBO have released a full - length trailer for their movie adaption of the classic dystopian novel, «Fahrenheit 451».
As we know, Welles finished production and went to South America to help the United States» government boost its relations with those countries, and in his absence, RKO hired two directors (Robert Wise, Fred Fleck) and Metty to provide additional scenes for Welles» classic adaptation of Booth Tarkington's novel.
Walt Disney Studios has released a new trailer and poster for «A Wrinkle in Time», based on the classic Madeleine L'Engle novel...
Sci - Fi Movie Page Pick: Based on the classic Robert Heinlein story about alien invaders taking over humans (which served as inspiration later on for the famous 1940s Invasion of the Body Snatchers novel by Jack Finney, which has been filmed three times!).
Set in an alternate timeline from the classic Trek, it seamlessly combines the novel with the comfortingly familiar in a provocative setting in which anything is possible, and the need for emotional connection, family if you will, is vital.
And he is branching out, directing his first movie, «The Virginian» (based on the classic Western novel) for TNT and going into producing.
Pennywise the clown is back to terrify a new generation of kids in this year's new feature film remake of the classic Stephen King novel It, and the first official teaser trailer has just emerged from the sewer for you to check out.
A new poster has debuted for writer - director Bernard Rose's Frankenstein, a modern - day adaption of Mary Shelley's classic novel which features a cast that includes Xavier Samuel, Carrie - Anne Moss, Danny Huston and Tony Todd.
EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Kaufman has been signed to do a page one rewrite of I.Q. 83, an adaptation of Arthur Herzog's classic 1978 science fiction novel that Paramount is now developing as a star vehicle for Steve Carell.
With just two weeks to go until the release of Ready Player One, theatre chain Cinemark has revealed an exclusive poster for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Ernest Cline's cult novel featuring Tye Sheridan's Wade Watts and The Iron Giant; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Ready Player One pays homage to classic movie posters Ready -LSB-...]
The 1962 film, still chilling today, had all the ingredients for success: accomplished director J. Lee Thompson (who also made Peck's 1962 adventure classic, «The Guns of Navarone»), a near - perfect cast, top - notch material (James R. Webb's screenplay is based on John D. MacDonald's novel «The Executioners»), a Bernard Herrmann score, cinematography by Sam Leavitt, art direction by Robert Boyle and editing by George Tomasini.
Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Kenneth Branagh, Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfeiffer, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Josh Gad, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Odom Jr., Tom Bateman, Olivia Colman, Lucy Boynton, and many more round out the cast for the film based on the classic Agatha Christie novel of the same name.
«With the visual palate of a mud - stained grass paddock, and scored to the sounds of blustering gales across the British moors, this striking adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic novel, from director Andrea Arnold, makes for a brutal, bruising 129 minutes»
Two new posters have arrived online for acclaimed director Ben Wheatley's adaptation of J. G. Ballard's classic British thriller novel High - Rise.
The project marks the second King project for Skarsgård, who will star in the film adaptation of King's classic novel, «It,» as the iconic terrorizing clown, Pennywise.
On the occasion of this week's U.K. release of a new film adaptation of Graham Greene's sinister classic 1938 novel Brighton Rock, Boyd Tonkin has written a piece for the Independent examining the esteemed British author's relationship with movies.
French writer / director Anne Fontaine envisions Gustav Flaubert's classic 19th century novel «Madame Bovary» for contemporary times.
As he fights for funding, Terence Davies explains why he wants to film the classic novel Sunset Song.
The classic film, based on the 1927 novel by German author B. Traven, is the tale of two down - and - out Americans in Mexico who join with an older prospector to dig for gold.
When: November 25th Why: Described more as a hodgepodge of Frankenstein's various iterations in pop culture than a straight retelling of Mary Shelley's classic novel, «Victor Frankenstein» has an undeniable «Sherlock Holmes» vibe to it, delivering a new twist on the character in much the same way that Guy Ritchie did for the Victorian detective.
He is also known for playing the protagonist Pip in British film adaptation of Charles Dickens» famous classic novel Great Expectations.
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert's classic French novel has been adapted half a dozen times for the screen over the past 50 years or so, and two more are about to be added to that list.
Hulu has released the first trailer and poster for the second season of The Handmaid's Tale, the hit series adapted from Margaret Atwood's classic novel.
Godless promises that it will upend the western genre's patriarchal structures, but as the Netflix limited series wears on, La Belle becomes merely a novel backdrop for a more classic drama: a showdown between a Robin Hood - like figure, Roy Goode (Jack O'Connell), and a psychopathic bandit, Frank Griffin (Jeff Daniels).
Because of the whole Star Wars Legends alternate universe (the classic Expanded Universe) and the current canon universe, there's some move for changes to be made in the movie and not to play spoiler, they change it up from the previous novels.
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