Sentences with phrase «historical fiction work»

Congratulations and thank you for the inspiration to get back to my historical fiction work.

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In the end Gallienus decides to pay for the celebrations using direct theft (by confiscating and then selling the estates of his enemies and those of their families), but the final sentence of the above excerpt from a work of historical fiction reveals more knowledge of how monetary inflation works than is found in the writings of most Keynesian economists.

Rodrigues is based on a historical priest, Giuseppe Chiara, and while Silence is a work of fiction, the story takes place in an actual time when the Japanese government sought to remove the 300,000 Christians converts and priests from their country.

Everyone has personal favorites, and I would like to close with a few of the books I have enjoyed with my children: Noel Streatfield's books about families with dancing children, including Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes; Cotton in My Sack and Indian Captive, books of historical fiction by Lois Lenski; the hilarious picture book Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman; the gentle moral tale of Rose, «who didn't work any harder than she had to»; Seven Loaves of Bread, by Ferida Wolf; and the accurate depictions of family life in both Joanna Harrison's When Mom Turned into a Monster and Jean van Leeuwen's delightful Oliver and Amanda Pig stories.

Perhaps I ought to be more surprised at his omission of historical fiction, including that of Madeleine Polland, written from a deeply Christian perspective; she wrote such works as Beorn the Proud, now available in reprint, and my personal favorite, The Queen's Blessing, set in the time of Saint Margaret of Scotland.

He is also a powerful novelist whose works of historical fiction» The First Circle, August 1914, Cancer Ward, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich» depict the enduring struggles between good and evil in the human heart.

I understand them very well, I just don't believe them to be completely factual and to be a work of historical fiction interlaced with magic, miracles and mumbo jumbo that the people of that time would have taken as fact but were merely unexplained phenomenon.

Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.

A new work of historical fiction — The Berlin Project — is author and physicist Gregory Benford's best attempt to explore that question.

by Stuart Clark Historical fiction: Einstein and Lemaitre work towards a new view of the universe.

«American Graffiti» is not only a great movie but a brilliant work of historical fiction; no sociological treatise could duplicate the movie's success in remembering exactly how it was to be alive at that cultural instant.

Based on Dan Simmons» 2007 novel, David Kajganich and Soo Hugh's 10 - episode nightmare — which premiered last night, and is intended as the potential first installment of an anthology series — is a work of harrowing historical fiction, one in which supernatural menace looms large over the proceedings, and yet is ultimately less threatening — or terrifying — than man himself.

Martin Scorsese's decades long passion project is based on a work of historical fiction.

Kushner stresses that the work is an historical fiction not an historical record.

Paul Revere, American Patriot Submitted by Steven Vetter Students learn about Paul Revere by examining first - person accounts, works of historical fiction, a popular narrative poem, and other resources.

Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling and award - winning author of more than thirty books for children and young adults, including picture books, novels, works of historical fiction and nonfiction.

These carefully curated selections include exceptional works of narrative nonfiction, informational texts, and historical fiction on an array of topics.

Wattpad is a free online storytelling community where users can post and read written works ranging across 29 different categories including classics, general fiction, historical fiction, non-fiction, poetry, spiritual, teen fiction among others.

Its policy is to publish poetry, short fiction, essays, creative nonfiction, memoir, essay reviews, nature - writing, translated work, literary journalism, and other autobiographical, historical, religious and scientific writing of literary distinction.

This is a work of historical fiction inspired by the real Grimké sisters, Sarah and Angelina.

A poignant, powerhouse work of historical fiction from one of our finest graphic storytellers.

Egan has played with our minds with her previous works, but her latest is an absorbing work of traditional historical fiction.

A couple of auspicious debuts are included in our latest rights update, as well as historical fiction, a children's entry, serial work and noir.

Historical fiction, Westerns, and works that challenge their genre are also welcome.

Historical fiction mainly, though I am currently working on something based in modern times.

McLain sustains a momentum as swift and heart - pounding as one of Beryl's prize horses at a gallop as she focuses on the romance, glamour, and drama of Beryl's blazing life, creating a seductive work of popular historical fiction with sure - fire bio-pic potential.

From Lorrie Moore's earliest reviews of novels by Margaret Atwood and Nora Ephron, to an essay on Ezra Edelman's 2016 O.J. Simpson documentary, and in between: Moore on the writing of fiction (the work of V. S. Pritchett, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, Stanley Elkin, Dawn Powell, Nicholson Baker, et al.)... on the continuing unequal state of race in America... on the shock of the shocking GOP... on the dangers (and cruel truths) of celebrity marriages and love affairs... on the wilds of television (The Wire, Friday Night Lights, Into the Abyss, Girls, Homeland, True Detective, Making a Murderer)... on the (d) evolving environment... on terrorism, the historical imagination, and the world's newest form of novelist... on the lesser (and larger) lives of biography and the midwifery between art and life (Anaïs Nin, Marilyn Monroe, John Cheever, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, among others)... and on the high art of being Helen Gurley Brown... and much, much more.

Beneath a Marble Sky is a work of historical fiction and is based upon the remarkable story behind the creation of the Taj Mahal.

The Hummingbird's Daughter is a wildly romantic work of fiction, but it is, in fact, grounded in historical truth.

The dynasty eventually produced, arguably, the two most recognizable names in the history of the British monarchy: Henry VIII and his daughter, Elizabeth I. Bennett serves up everything you might expect, and desire, from a meaty work of historical fiction set in 15th century Europe: dysfunctional royals, court intrigue, war (civil and international), romance, conniving clergy, and the occasional offspring of «questionable origin» (Darra W).

The voice Tripp creates for Georgia is pitch - perfect, the historical details so deeply embedded in the narrative I forgot the book was a work of fiction.

Kristin Hannah is known for her contemporary fiction so I was blown away by this meticulously researched work of historical fiction set in France during WW2.

I had no aspiration to write historical fiction and I hadn't read any of Flannery's work in about a decade.

The latest in Vidal's series of intelligently wrought historical novels tracing the rise and development of the American republic joins its predecessors in the front rank of historical fiction written over the past three decades.

We're intrigued by the next release coming from Melanie Benjamin, one of the best writers of historical fiction based on real people working today.

Jane Bedell, a nonfiction and historical fiction writer, worked as an intern for Beyond Words Publishing Inc..

Experienced, thoughtful evaluation and editing of chick lit, crime drama, fantasy, historical, magical realism, mystery, slipstream, sci - fi / fantasy thrillers, and literary works; memoir, poetry, and young adult / juvenile fiction and nonfi...

Adrienne has crafted marketing campaigns for a wide variety of non-fiction and fiction books including commercial, historical and literary works by first time authors and established bestsellers.

A plot in a work of historical fiction should be representative of the concerns and issues of their times.

As an editorial consultant on the beautiful New Hampshire seacoast, she helps authors fine tune their voice with detailed and constructive criticism, and especially loves working on suspense, historical and contemporary fiction, and memoir with an ethnographic twist.

He works primarily with quality fiction — literary, historical, strongly written commercial — and with voice - driven nonfiction across a range of areas — narrative history, biography, memoir, current affairs, cultural trends and criticism, science, sports, etc..

Having published more than a dozen books — nonfiction and fiction — with both traditional and often prestigious publishers as well as on my own, I have a very good sense of the demands of book promotion and was delighted to have the chance to work with Smith Publicity who did a fine job with my Sino - American Tales series of historical novels

I think it gives authenticity to the story, especially a work of historical fiction (in this case based on a real story) and I feel the author was able to create a certain amount of suspense by slowly revealing things in a unique way.

Because this is a work of historical fiction, Hesse incorporates layered factual details to give the plot plausibility.

Electrifying and ambitious, sweeping in scope and intimate in tone, The Weight of Ink is a sophisticated work of historical fiction about women separated by centuries, and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order reconcile the life of the heart and mind.

Historical fantasy — works that combine history with aspects of the supernatural — is emerging as a hot new genre of YA fiction.

Card has admitted that he can't be bothered to keep track of his plots and characters, and so his other series are always overrun with errors and inconsistencies, and his lack of interest in research is apparent in this silly work of «historical «fiction.

Though each a work of fiction, the stories are still based on historical research — which is listed in the bibliographic afterword.

The women at the center of these events are at the heart of two new works of historical fiction.

And finally, the best works of YA historical fiction inspire teens to bring ideas from the past into their present lives.