Sentences with phrase «literary giants of»

Models adorned in jewels and couture gowns, literary giants of the era, and Broadway actors and Ziegfeld Follies dancers: the subject matter is as sensational as the Jazz Age itself.

From the literary giants of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy, to the delicately beautiful music of Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky and passionate Sergei Rachmaninoff, there is so much of the past of Russia to discover.

Now, the author tries to turn it around and make the working author seem less of a real «author» or «artist» than the literary giants of our time.

This exciting page - turner follows Martha Gellhorn as she reports from the center of the action of the Spanish Civil War, then jeopardizes her reputation and very existence by falling in love with the greatest literary giant of the day, Ernest Hemingway.

Not exact matches

Follow in the footsteps of all great literary giants and sequester yourself somewhere peaceful and undisturbed.

The «globalization» — or rather, the American Westernization — of Egypt that has been gaining speed since the 1960s has no literary or political giants.

So begins the first pages of my next literary endeavor, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, available now for pre-order and officially releasing June 12, 2018.

These steps are best taken with the giant circle of literary genres in mind.

Camus is probably better known to most denizens of football terraces as a goalkeeper than un hommes de lettres, as your hint suggests you already know Dr F. And he's not the only literary giant similarly ccomplished, as I'm sure you also know.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said he regretted the decision of US based Nigeria literary giant, Prof. Chinua Achebe to once again, reject the conferment on...

One of the most stimulating books on the modern British experience comes not from the contemporary literary giants but from a thriller writer.

statement issued on his behalf by Reuben Abati, his spokesperson, the President Jonathan also said he surprised by «Achebe's claim that the issues which caused him to reject the same award seven years ago, still remain unresolved» arguing that the literary giant may not be aware of true contemporary political situation in Nigeria.

I love the lament for a literary culture that has gone the way of the dodo, where former giants now play unrecognized with blowsy divorcees they picked up at closing time.

So many critics hated, hated, hated Brief Interviews with Hideous Men at Sundance and other festivals that I kind of wanted to root for it, to say, well, even if it was a mixed bag, at least Krasinski was adapting the work of one of our great modern literary giants.

On our journey we observe power of the past in Catherine and Peter the Greats, literary giants like Alexander Pushkin, as well as later overseers of the Hermitage in Boris Piotrovsky and current director Mikhail Piotrovsky, all within the same time and space.

With a fantastic line - up of aged comedy writers and familiar faces such as Chevy Chase, John Landis, the documentary chronicles the rise and surprisingly fast fall of this modern literary giant that is more than a footnote in comedy history.

Elsewhere, the New York Times painted a wonderful picture of the offices in which the Nook is developed, a kind of literary version of Silicon Valley tech giants:

Tinti is a writer gifted beyond her years, both literary in her perceptions — «the sailboat passed a cargo ship the length of an aircraft carrier, stretching across the surface like a giant guarding the edge of the world» — and possessing a thoroughgoing comprehension of the human condition, our sometimes desperate search for love and family, the rage we often feel as we stumble through our ignorance and past our fear to confront our mortality.

Amazon chose a giant rotunda in New York's Morgan Library, which houses some of the world's most important literary and musical works.

Publishers from three of America's leading independent literary publishers chat with Jeffrey Lependorf, Executive Director of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses about their moves from larger houses and how they've shaped their current small presses into tiny publishing giants.

Whether this is due to their author envy of literary giants or just feeling inadequate, too many words often scream «amateur.»

Then, as Amazon Publishing — the bookselling and self - publishing giant's strictly traditional publishing imprint — gained a foothold in the publishing industry by wooing even some of the most stalwart naysayers, it seemed as though the literary world is now ready to let the start - up publisher join them at the grown - ups» table.

«KDP enables independent authors to compete on a level playing field with the giants of the literary world and it's been such a huge success for authors and customers,» said Jorrit Van der Meulen, Vice President, Kindle EU, in the press release.

As a young man, delving into Schwartz's life with only a partial idea of what he was doing, Atlas was nonetheless able to meet many of his fast - vanishing heroes from the New York literary world who had inspired him to become a critic in the first place: Philip Rahv, Dwight Macdonald, Alfred Kazin — giants who held sway over American culture in a bygone, arguably more literate age.

Since I have been ruining my chance at a literary career by not writing my own things for about a decade — to illustrate this specifically, I did not finish a book while a Canadian literary giant who was championing it was still alive — I thought a two week timeframe was about right so that I didn't collapse in a pile of goo.

Winning the essay contest landed me in Wales, my grandfather's native land, and at the home of literary giant, Jan Morris, whose work I've always admired.

Standing at the top of majestic Mt. Haleakala, renowned for its stunning sunrises and beauty, you'll be amazed by the raw beauty that inspired literary giant Mark Twain.

This article will discuss licensing out of technology, but first let's look at the basics with the help of a literary giant.

Schlapobersky and his book — the literary analogue of a group at its best — are worthy successors to his predecessor giants: Foulkes and Anthony, Yalom, Skynner, Pines.

I'll teach you how to experience healthy conflict, drawing upon the ideology of literary giant, Leo Tolstoy, who wrote, «What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.»