Sentences with phrase «history than a novel»

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E. L. James's novel Fifty Shades of Grey is now the best selling book in British history, has sold more than 100 million copies globally, and has spawned two sequels, along with an upcoming film adaptation.

Already Old Testament scholarship recognised that such books as Job, Jonah and Esther were more edifying novels than history.

McEneny emphasized that the author's «Albany cycle» of novels, eight books covering more than a century of city history, is recognized as having helped establish Albany as a culture center.

The discovery of a novel high - density mineral means that Earth's mantle is a more restless place than scientists suspected — and offers new clues to the planet's history

Anthropologist Shara Bailey, an expert in ancient human teeth at New York University in New York City, says that «the barium method is novel and appears to be even more powerful» than previous approaches, adding that despite small sample sizes, «the authors present a strong argument for the utility of this method for extrapolating weaning history.»

Basically, the Orloj is a clock with a history line better than a Grisham novel plot, (see International dating agency gives you the wonderful opportunity to meet beautiful single women who can take you to a different world altogether by merely

Never a fan of the novels, I find the film to be more coherent, more emotionally engaging, and a good deal more exciting than anything Tolkien presented in his self - described «histories» of Middle Earth.

These virtual experiences would contextualize periods of history for students far better than any lecture or video could, and it would be a far different experience reading a Charles Dickens novel after experiencing the filth and grandeur of 19th - century London through your own eyes.

The conservatives who control the board have neutered the teachers union, prodded neighborhood elementary schools to compete with one another for market share, directed tax money to pay for religious education and imposed a novel pay scale that values teachers by their subjects, so a young man teaching algebra to eighth graders can make $ 20,000 a year more than a colleague teaching world history down the hall.

French has said that Donna Tartt's claustrophobically creepy novel The Secret History was a major influence on her, and nowhere is this more evident than in The Likeness, as a growing sense of unease permeates the creaky old house where these fiercely devoted friends close themselves off from the outside world.

This book is so rich and full of history and was much more satisfying than a novel (Lora O).

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a more ambitious novel than The Kite Runner, with a wider and deeper historical and cultural scope that illuminates the last three decades of Afghan history during which the country has been inflicted by coups and counter-coups, an anti-Soviet jihad, civil war, warlord and Taliban tyranny, and post 9/11 conflict.

The Last Empress, which opens where Empress Orchid ends, lacks the compelling rags - to - riches / love story elements of Empress Orchid and tends to read like a series of vignettes not a continuous novel - probably the result of trying to squeeze nearly half a century of turbulent history into less than 300 pages.

In the meantime, I have spent hundreds of dollars recently on non-fiction history and travel hardcovers with charts, diagrams and other illustrations needing more than e-book can offer for proper display, but I would not do that for novels in e-book form.

She also has written acclaimed standalone novels, including the thriller The Alibi Club, which was selected as one of Publisher Weekly's best novels of the year, A Flaw in the Blood, Jack 1939 and more than twenty other novels of mystery, history, and suspense.

He's the New York Times bestselling author of They Both Die at the End, More Happy Than Not, and History Is All You Left Me, and all his novels have received multiple starred reviews.

My history - loving boyfriend talks about Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson biographies with the same passion that I might use to describe my favorite novel (he'd also tell you they're funnier than David Sedaris).

This book is so rich and full of history and was much more satisfying than a novel.

Talking about her second novel, currently in progress, Diana says «I'm at that agonizing, chaotic conceptual stage where the idea is much, much bigger than I thought it was and I realize terrifying things, such as the small matter of having to research the entire history of the entire world, for instance.

I learned about its history when I first started writing the novel; really, my first encounter with it was in a book called Worse Than Slavery (1996), by David M. Oshinsky, which I picked up at Eso Won Books, in Los Angeles.

«It's one of the few times in history that technology has reinvigorated an art form rather than crushing it,» said Max Brooks, author of the zombie novel «World War Z,» which was released in May ahead of the Brad Pitt movie in an elaborate new audio edition with 40 cast members, including Alan Alda, John Turturro, and Martin Scorsese.

And I think this novel shows slavery in a way one doesn't get from history books: it has the immediacy of some of the best slave narratives, with a much broader view of the whole than any one slave's experience.

Matthews succeeds admirably in his goal of describing his family's journey from Russia to England and back again, in the process crafting a fascinating history that reads more like a novel than a work of non-fiction.

GLENN LONEY»S JANUARY, 2015 RAMBLES At The Asia Society: TAKAHIRO IWASKAI: In Focus, BUDDHIST ART OF MYANMAR, At The Brooklyn Museum of Art: KEHIND WILEY: A New Republic, At The CUNY Grad Center's James Gallery: SPECTERS OF COMMUNISM: Contemporary Russian Art, At The Frick Collection: COYPEL»S DON QUIXOTE TAPESTRIES: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth Century France, At The Galerie St Etienne: ALTERNATE HISTORIES: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Galerie St Etienne, At The Grolier Club: ALDUS MANUTIUS: A Legacy More Lasting Than Bronze, LITERATURE OF THE LIBERATION: The French Experience in Print — 1944 46, At LCLPA — The Lincoln Center Library for The Performing Arts» Vincent Astor Gallery: BROADWAY REVEALED: Behind the Theatre Curtain, At MMA — The Metropolitan Museum of Art: CAPTAIN LINNAEUS TRIPE: Photographer of India & Burma — 1832 1860, At The MLM — The Morgan Library & Museum: The World Monuments Fund 2015 Paul Mellon Lecture, RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE ROME: The Art of Urban Form, LINCOLN SPEAKS: Words That Transformed a Nation, PIRANESI & THE TEMPLES OF PAESTUM: Drawings from Sir John Soane's Museum, HEBREW ILLUMINATION FOR OUR TIME: The Art of Barbara Wolff, EMBRACING MODERNISM: Ten Years of Drawing Acquisitions, At MCNY — The Museum of the City of New York: EVERYTHING IS DESIGN: The Work of Paul Rand, SAVING PLACE: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks, At The Park Avenue Armory: WAS — The Annual Winter Antiques Show: A Benefit for the East Side House Settlement.

It is more than a celebration of Joyce's novel - it is an alternative history of modern culture in which pop art is not the faintly embarrassing denim - clad uncle of today's young artists, but a manifestation of the driving energy of modernism, from Joyce to today, a desire to celebrate common, humble experience.