Sentences with phrase «eighteenth novel»
The original 2012 film was adapted from writer Lee Child's ninth Jack Reacher book, One Shot, but this newest installment is based on the author's eighteenth novel in the series, Never Go Back.
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Born from Thomas Robert Malthus» famous late - eighteenth - century Essay on Population, this was the novel view that humanity itself amounted to a kind of scourge or pollution whose pressure on fellow members would lead to catastrophe.
Something of the «supernatural thickness» of medieval romance reappeared in the spooky Gothic novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but there was no going back.
«The Crimson Petal and the White meets Fight Club: A page - turning novel set in the world of female pugilists and their patrons in late eighteenth - century England.»
Whilst ultimately a holocaust novel, Safran Foer manages to inject plenty of humour with his characters (the «blind» grandfather driver with his seeing - eye bitch, Sammy Davis Junior, Junior; an ancestor with a blade in his head; a young Ukrainian with an ambition to be an accountant, who is saving to go to America by eschewing nightclubs in favour of the beach), with his fantastic eighteenth century Polish - Ukrainian Jewish shtetl full of whacky inhabitants and customs, and with the often hilarious results of generous if totally misguided use of a Thesaurus.
Noah's Compass is the eighteenth adult novel by American author, Anne Tyler.
Port Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell's eighteenth Scarpetta novel, is literally a port for the dead.
I have done developmental editing on manuscripts about subjects as disparate as eighteenth - century phrenology and the US - UK special relationship in James Bond novels.
Landman's Dickensian novel, about an eighteenth - century English teen determined to clear his father's name, tells a taut mystery that brings issues of class, race, and justice into sharp focus.
In this eighteenth volume the full and complete novel, Calling Dead, a Cold Poker Gang novel, plus five short stories, an ongoing serial novel, and many other features.
Golden Hill is an update of eighteenth - century picaresque novels by the likes of Henry Fielding and entertains us with its savage wit, mystery, charismatic protagonist, and romantic storyline as it propels us toward a powerful revelation at the novel's end.
I have completed a literary, historical novel, The Tremble of Love, inspired by the life of an eighteenth century mystic, rabbi and healer known as the Baal Shem Tov.
Middle School / YA Katherine Kellgren's vocal athleticism takes listeners from the filthy streets of eighteenth century London to the high seas in L.A. Meyer's fast - paced novel about a girl who stows away as a cabin boy.