Sentences with phrase «in earlier novels»

Matthiessen concludes his Watson trilogy with a magnificent epic that resolves some of the questions raised in the earlier novels about the larger - than - life character's mysterious past.

Having said that, readers new to the series may note a lack of up front character description - presumably because the characters have been extensively developed in earlier novels.

One of the things that causes Harry much anxiety in the earlier novels, such as Chamber of Secrets, is that he turns out to have so much in common with his archenemy, from the ability to speak the serpentine «parsel - tongue» to a traumatic childhood background.

As in her earlier novels, Miller eschews a conventional happy ending.

Although the threads of a romance are introduced in the early novels, Dalgleish does not remarry.

I even attempted and failed at writing one in an early novel.

In the end, though, the Victorian London in my story is a vision from my imagination, in the same way that the Scottish highlands in my earlier novel, Under The Skin, were a personal vision.

Dallas novelist Kathleen Kent tells the story of Martha Allen and Thomas Carrier, who in her earlier novel experienced the Salem Witch Trials.

Not exact matches

The Obama Administration's Wall Street managers have kept the debt overhead in place — toxic mortgage debt, junk bonds, and most seriously, the novel web of collateralized debt obligations (CDO), credit default swaps (almost monopolized by A.I.G.) and kindred financial derivatives of a basically mathematical character that have developed in the 1990s and early 2000s.

The company is ramping up for a novel «direct listing» — where it would sell its shares to the public without using Wall Street banks as a go - between later this year or early in 2018.

In the early 1900s, department stores came up with a novel idea to help their customers pay for their purchases: Customers could...

The point of this article is that King, who was raised in a strict Methodist family, weaves much of his early upbringing into his novels.

The Mailer who can write a sentence like «his eyes were blue like the faded blue of the sky when the sky is white» is about as far as is humanly possible from the Mailer whose political reporting in the early 1960s remains irresistible long after its subjects have faded» and reestablished his literary reputation that had begun to fade with the critical and popular questioning of the novels that followed The Naked and the Dead.

What one finds in Greene is perhaps a more subtle insight into marriage than what one finds in nineteenth - and early - twentieth - century novels: the lack of fulfillment in marriage and the need to seek this in the company of someone else.

Yet the early Church itself, when it departed from biblical idiom at the Council of Nicea and used for theological purposes a non-biblical word, homo - ousion, as the guarantor of true biblical meaning, gave Christians in later days a charter for translation — provided always that it is the gospel, its setting and its significance, that we are translating, and not some bright and novel ideas of our own.

Charles Williams» early novel, The Place of the Lion, is so blatantly supernatural and allegorical that it will serve a useful role in analyzing the type.

It is my conviction, on the contrary, that what lay dormant in his early books has belatedly come to life in his recent novels.

I entreat all of you to read A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes novel — fiction, of course, but interesting that a very reputable and fact - driven author would choose to delve into the life of the antagonist as being helplessly tied up in an early Mormonist agenda...

Certainly one can see how it fits with the numerous early signs of the late 60s Sexual - Bohemian Revolution in a sense «reported» in Walker Percy's 1962 novel The Moviegoer.

All of the worlds visited by the communal «I» early in the novel are in the throes of a social crisis caused by a lack of communal spirit.

The Heather Blazing (1992), one of his early novels, opens with Eamon Redmond, a conscientious high court judge in Dublin, writing his last judgment of the term before joining his wife Carmel for summer vacation in the County Wexford, from which they hail.

DeSalvo, whose previous work includes an edition of an early version of one of Virginia Woolf's novels and a collection of letters from Vita Sackville - West to Woolf, argues that other biographers of Woolf (particularly Quentin Bell) have glossed over the formative traumas of her early life, dismissing them as unimportant and in effect blaming the victim for the abuse she suffered.

The Russian Formalists of the early twentieth century rightly pointed out that her novels exclusively follow the Cinderella plot: A young woman falls in love with a man of superior social standing and has to wait for him to make the first declaration of love ¯ to be followed, even more excruciatingly, by the hoped - for offer of marriage.

The rapture has become an accepted part of the Christian vocabulary with the publication of the megaselling «Left Behind» novels and a heavily publicized prediction earlier this year by a Christian radio broadcaster that the rapture would occur in May.

Zossima speaks a word, earlier in the novel, that may help us understand Dostoevky's attitude to Ivan: «those who are apart from Christianity and in revolt against it are none the less still personifications of Christ in their essence, and such they will remain.»

In this way Zossima's vision of a united humanity will be achieved, and we can understand why, early in the novel, the elder so mysteriously bowed before the troubled DmitrIn this way Zossima's vision of a united humanity will be achieved, and we can understand why, early in the novel, the elder so mysteriously bowed before the troubled Dmitrin the novel, the elder so mysteriously bowed before the troubled Dmitry.

The bestselling Left Behind novels, written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins between 1995 and 2007, dramatize the premillennial view of the End Times favored by earlier generations of American fundamentalists, in which Christ «raptures» his followers to heaven before a series of apocalyptic events unfold on earth.

Of course, Watchman isn't a new novel, but something of an earlier version of Mockingbird that Lee first submitted to publishers in the mid-1950s.

Novelty, freedom, spontaneity are secondary vis - à - vis ongoingness: there has to be novel concrescence in order for there to be freedom, spontaneity or novelty What has to be explained is becoming, which for Whitehead means: «the creative advance of nature» (as he puts it in the earlier works), or «the creative advance into novelty» (as he puts it later on).

We have, he says — probably in direct reaction to Wittgenstein in his Tractatus (a book that appeared just a few years earlier and that Whitehead certainly knew about)-- we have to «rationalize mysticism»: not by causal reasons, but «by the introduction of novel verbal characterizations, rationally coordinated» (Modes 174).

With the approach of Updike's 50th birthday, and with the publication of this his 25th book, it is time to offer an assessment of his work as a whole: to trace his natively Lutheran vision of life as cast by God into an indissoluble ambiguity, to examine his treatment of death and sex as the two phenomena wherein the human contradiction is most sharply focused, to set this new novel in relation to the earlier «Rabbit» books, and to determine what is religiously troubling and compelling about Updike's art.

Early episodes of The Handmaid's Tale waste no time in establishing the alternate reality of its own world, first conceived by Margaret Atwood in her 1985 novel of the same name.

In that novel, the great Russian writer shows Ivan, Aloysha, and Dmitri as caught in this dilemma of choice; and they are appraised, in their personal quality, as blessed or damned, as we might put it, not by the arbitrary fiat of a deus ex machina, but by the ineluctable working out of what they have made of themselves, what they have become, as this is evaluated in terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of thingIn that novel, the great Russian writer shows Ivan, Aloysha, and Dmitri as caught in this dilemma of choice; and they are appraised, in their personal quality, as blessed or damned, as we might put it, not by the arbitrary fiat of a deus ex machina, but by the ineluctable working out of what they have made of themselves, what they have become, as this is evaluated in terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of thingin this dilemma of choice; and they are appraised, in their personal quality, as blessed or damned, as we might put it, not by the arbitrary fiat of a deus ex machina, but by the ineluctable working out of what they have made of themselves, what they have become, as this is evaluated in terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of thingin their personal quality, as blessed or damned, as we might put it, not by the arbitrary fiat of a deus ex machina, but by the ineluctable working out of what they have made of themselves, what they have become, as this is evaluated in terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of thingin terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of thingin an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of thingin the scheme of things.

It happens over generations as later generations stay in many ways quite similar but in certain respects become rather different from earlier generations, especially in small, isolated populations facing novel selection pressures.

Girard began in the early 1960s, with such works as Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, by explaining how triangular relations form among characters in fiction.

Early in the twentieth century, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called the states the «laboratories of democracy,» where novel ideas and laws could be tried without risk to the rest of the country.

In his earlier works, especially his internationally famous first novel, The Moviegoer (1961), the outward events do not matter really so much as the narrator's witty meditations on his own inward life and the life of the world.

Father Zosima exhibits such foolish suffering when, early in the novel, he makes a low bow of humility before the cruel buffoon who is old Fyodor Karamazov.

Had Mandlikova found a more novel way to pull off what two more of their hockey players had done earlier in the week in America?

This will be the fourth book that Untold has been involved in publishing, and continues the theme of variety in our developing list of Arsenal titles which will shortly include not just two books on the early days of Arsenal («The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal», and «Woolwich Arsenal the club that changed football») and a novel, but now also an autobiography.

I plan to begin work on a children's book / graphic novel inspired by folk tales, while continuing to promote my work on Brighton the Graphic novel with some university presentations early in spring onwards.

According to the Royal Society of Canada, «The potentially widespread use of GM food products as food additives and staple foods, including use in baby foods, may lead to earlier introduction of these novel proteins to susceptible infants either directly or via the presence of the maternally ingested proteins in breast milk.»

In the early 1930s, the Buffalo Public Library (a predecessor of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library,) began to build a unique collection of special English and foreign language editions of the novel.

«This novel technique,» they said, «should help distinguish and monitor cancer stages and progression, aid in elucidation of basic mechanisms underlying tumorigenesis, and facilitate analyses of processes related to early detection of cancer, screening and / or cancer risk assessment.»

To reach its impressive performance SPHERE required early development of novel technologies, in particular in the area of adaptive optics, special detectors and coronagraph components.

So says Kit, a character in The Quarry, the final novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks — who himself died earlier this month from cancer.

«The results are novel, as this sensitive and comprehensive testing has revealed how prenatal and early postnatal immune activation may regulate core behavioral signs associated with ASD and certain other developmental disorders through changes in signal flow between different structural components of behavior - driving neural circuits,» said Bolshakov.

Fortunately, I identified a niche for myself in the field — a novel area of research in translational control — and wrote a proposal jointly with a permanent member of faculty at the University of Sussex, U.K., who had actually taught me years earlier.

«At the same time, as the human ZNF217 is associated with poor survival in a variety of cancers, understanding how this protein operates in physiological conditions may help to predict cancer risk, achieve earlier diagnosis and provide novel therapeutic approaches.»

Note added in proof: Additional evidence for CA1 - CA3 differences is provided by a recent study measuring immediate early gene activation in two different novel rooms (36).