Sentences with phrase «literary legend»
The phrase "literary legend" refers to a person who is highly respected, renowned, and influential in the world of literature. They have made significant and lasting contributions to the field, often creating timeless works that continue to be admired and celebrated by many readers. Full definition
They're studded with classic anecdotes — the stuff from which literary legends are spun.
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The city that never sleeps has inspired a whole cast of famous and infamous literary legends.
Rupert Everett's directorial debut The Happy Prince follows in the footsteps of no less than three attempts to catalogue the life of literary legend Oscar Wilde, and does so with the panache that one might assume necessary for fictionalising his life, but there's a curious gaudy slant to proceedings which sees it not far off BBC prime time drama territory.
As it was with literary legend Joan Didion, another renowned Sacramento icon, beyond Gerwig's talent and success her fans can admire Gerwig's image: her style, her cool, the viewpoint she embodies.
Of course the great literary legend is no longer with us (he died in November 2007), but his house has been transformed into The Norman Mailer Writers Colony.
Reclusive literary legend M. M. «Mimi» Banning has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion for years.
To David Carver's agony, one of his companions — a Norman Maileresque aging literary legend who will shortly give his own life in service to God's will — can only reply: «You said «God is cruel» the way a person who's lived his whole life in Tahiti might say «Snow is cold.»
Then there's the allusion to J.D. Salinger's novella, an account of the precocious genius of the Glass family, by now something of an American literary legend.
Gus Van Sant's deftly crafted «Finding Forrester» achieves all of the above and more: It provides a platform for Sean Connery to deliver a definitive, career - summation performance as a reclusive, charismatic literary legend.
Now that «Mary Shelley» has had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, star Elle Fanning (who plays the titular literary legend) and director Haifaa al - Mansour hope audiences will appreciate the story of «a woman's struggle.»
David Haig plays literary legend Rudyard Kipling, and Daniel Radcliffe (famed for playing Harry Potter in the big - screen series) is his son Jack in the British telefilm about the son's determination to join the armed forces in World War I to make his patriotic papa proud.
In this absorbing account, Rakoff (A Fortunate Age) describes her time as an assistant for one of the most storied literary agencies in New York City — one that represented such literary legends as F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner and Judy Blume, along with the agency's star client, J.D. Salinger.
What better way to celebrate the life and work of the late literary legend, Tom Clancy?
Ekua Holmes» stunning mixed - media illustrations have a poetry all their own, making this homage to an international group of literary legends a book to be treasured.
It's fitting that the first is with literary legend and icon, Lawrence Block.
As part of the 2016 literary events to celebrate Beatrix Potter's 150th anniversary, specialist walking and cycling tour operator, Headwater, is delighted to introduce a BRAND NEW hand - crafted, 6 - night, self - guided walk which follows in the footsteps of the great literary legends and explores the very best of the South Lakes National Park.
This documentary takes a look behind Albert's incredible creation of a literary legend.
From tech and media executives to athletes and literary legends, today's most influential women have been making strides for gender equality in their respective industries.
In this story of a persecuted poet and his obsessive adversary, Neruda recognizes his own heroic possibilities: a chance to become a symbol for liberty, as well as a literary legend.
In this look at their lives, vanity presses, underhand dealings, and ripoff merchants play in their rise to literary legend.
It has been years since their paths crossed, and in that time Thomas has become a kind of literary legend.
Readers need your voice, not a remixed, remastered, studio voice over of a literary legend's whose shoes you were never designed to wear in the first place.
What better book promotion opportunity could their be than an attempt by a literary legend to legally prevent you from publishing your work?
It's only through ITW that we were able to bring these literary legends toe to toe.
A chic spa retreat, surrounded by Alpine scenery that inspired a literary legend, is a perfect stay to clear the mind — full story»