Sentences with phrase «makings of a great novel»

During Lent, I've been rewatching the magnificent 1981 BBC production of Brideshead Revisited — the best TV adaption ever made of a great novel, in part because of the stunning cast but in larger part because Evelyn Waugh's book is the screenplay.

«In my book... the makings of a great novel: cheating husbands, murder, and hot cowboys.»

Not exact matches

To me, innovation and making improvements are fine, but getting to the root of an issue and providing a completely novel solution sets the good apart from the great.»

The sheer length and complexity of great novels, their patient playing out of the consequences of our moral choices, make them infinitely more useful than the brief schematic narratives that are commonly employed by moral philosophers to illustrate their claims.

What makes this novel approach perfection — and two comments on the book jacket actually employ the word — is the way Ishiguro leads the reader into Stevens's life through his own words, enabling us to feel his pride in being a «great» butler and at the same time experience the pain of personal loss which he is utterly unable to acknowledge.

Bruce If you want to appreciate art reason won't get you there either, but the emotional surrender to music, or an oil canvas, or even a great novel does not make the fictional subjects of these things actually real.

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 things.

Glenn gives us Jordan Baker, the woman golfer in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1920s novel The Great Gatsby, «who gave up cocktails when training for a tournament but seemed to spend a great deal of time reclining languidly on divans and making delicious small talk with the glorious Daisy.&rGreat Gatsby, «who gave up cocktails when training for a tournament but seemed to spend a great deal of time reclining languidly on divans and making delicious small talk with the glorious Daisy.&rgreat deal of time reclining languidly on divans and making delicious small talk with the glorious Daisy.»

The world's plastic demand is so great that though polymers and plastics once were byproducts of fuel, now novel production processes are dedicated to making them.

Whether or not all this novel technology means that Sean Connery, er, «Dr. Robert Campbell,» will make a more credible scientist in the future, it's still worth taking a look at some of the greatest hits from nature's medicine cabinet.

«We got these data right around New Year's 2009,» Sabunciyan said one day last August as he scrolled through a file containing 2 billion letters of genetic code, equivalent to 2,000 John Grisham novels composed just of the letters G, A, T, and C (making the plot a great deal more confusing).

The North Pole and Its Seekers October 28, 1868 New Expeditions to the Arctic Regions June 24, 1871 The Latest Arctic Explorations — The Remarkable Escape of the Polaris Party June 7, 1873 Rescue of the Remaining Survivors of the Polaris October 4, 1873 The Latest Polar Expedition December 26, 1874 Work for Arctic Explorers July 17, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition The Coming Arctic Expeditions May 22, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition August 28, 1975 July 3, 1876 The Search for the Pole The British Arctic Expedition December 23 and 30, 1876 The Recent Arctic Expedition January 20, 1877 Another Approach: Balloons and Airships Some Suggestions for Future Polar Expeditions February 13, 1877 Proposed New British Polar Expedition September 20, 1879 To the North Pole by Balloon July 13, 1895 Wellman's Airship for His North Polar Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American July 7, 1906 The Wellman Polar Airship Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American June 22, 1907 Farther North The American Arctic Expedition September 14, 1878 The Peary Arctic Expedition July 15, 1893 Nansen's Polar Expedition March 14, 1896 The Recent Failures of Arctic Expeditions August 29, 1896 The Return of Lieut. Peary September 27, 1902 The Polar Regions June 11, 1904 Peary's New Ship for Work in Arctic Seas October 8, 1904 Peary and the North Pole July 15, 1905 Peary's Arctic Ship, The «Roosevelt» July 15, 1905 Peary's «Farthest North» November 17, 1906 Race to the Finish: Peary and Cook Peary's Quest of the North Pole July 18, 1908 Peary and the North Pole August 21, 1909 Dr. Cook and the North Pole September 11, 1909 Dr. Cook's Discovery of the North Pole September 11, 1909 Honor to Whom Honor is Due September 18, 1909 Commander Peary's Discovery of the North Pole September 18, 1909 Retrospect of the Year 1909: Exploration January 1, 1910 «Investigating» Peary April 22, 1911 THE SOUTH POLE Exploring Antarctica Antarctic Exploration January 23, 1897 To South Polar Lands February 13, 1897 The Voyage of the «Discovery» February 3, 1906 Antarctic Expeditions, Past and Present Some Heroes of Exploration November 11, 1911 Dr. Charcot's Antarctic Expedition November 30, 1907 Motoring Toward the Pole By Motor Car to the South Pole By J. S. Dunnet October 19, 1907 The Shackleton Antarctic Expedition By John Plummer August 29, 1908 Lieut. Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition April 3, 1909 Lieut. Shackleton April 9, 1910 Two Novel Motor Sleds By Walter Langford May 14, 1910 Race to the Finish: Amundsen and Scott The Antarctic Expeditions January 13, 1912 The Discovery of the South Pole March 16, 1912 Amundsen's Attainment of the South Pole Progress of Antarctic Exploration By G. W. Littlehales, Hydrographic Office, United States Navy March 23, 1912 Capt. Scott at the South Pole April 13, 1912 Shadows at the South Pole June 15, 1912 The Scott Expedition and its Tragic End A Sacrifice Made for Scientific Ideals February 22, 1913 Achievements and Lessons of the Scott Expedition March 1, 1913 To the South Pole with the Cinematograph Film Records of Scott's Ill - Fated Expedition June 21, 1913 Science in the Heroic Age The Height of the Antarctic Continent By Walter Langford June 4, 1910 The Renewed Siege of the Antarctic January 17, 1914 Shackleton's South Polar Expedition The Value of His Scientific Observations By Henryk Arctowski June 17, 1916 Thawing Scott's Legacy A pioneer in atmosphere ozone studies, Susan Solomon rewrites the history of a fatal polar expedition By Sarah Simpson December 2001 Greater Glory In the race to the South Pole, explorer Robert F. Scott refused to sacrifice his ambitious science agenda By Edward J. Larson June 2011

The mind spins at what a great stylist and provocateur like Brian De Palma or Paul Verhoeven might have done with a story like this — Mission: Impossible crossed with Showgirls, maybe — but instead the director Francis Lawrence, working from a novel by the retired CIA operative Jason Matthews and reunited with his regular leading lady (no relation) for the first time since the conclusion of The Hunger Games, makes it all punishingly matter of fact.

Heralded as one of the greatest American novels of the last half - century, it was only a matter of time before Philip Roth's «American Pastoral» made its way to the silver screen.

In the mid -»30s, Leonard truly hit his stride as a director, making the fine «A» pictures A Tale of Two Cities (1935) with Robert Donat and The Great Ziegfeld (1936), which took the Best Picture Oscar for that year; his version of Pride and Prejudice (1940) starring Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson also remains highly regarded, despite its rather heavy - handed adaptation of Austen's novel.

What You Need To Know: Brimful of ambition, the intriguing concept of making two interlocking but distinct films out of a single relationship drama is certainly novel and the fact that it has overcome potential distribution difficulties, and tricky marketing conundrums to get made at all is a clear signal that someone up there has great faith in the scripts, and in first - time writer / director Ned Benson.

Preparing to make the film version of the late John O'Brien's novel of boozy suicide, Nicolas Cage told Roger Ebert that he watched all the great Hollywood portrayals of alcoholics.

I haven't read the novels (I've paged through some of «Dragon Tattoo» in English), but even fans I've talked to don't make any claims for Larsson as a great writer (albeit in translation), and the Swedish movie version struck me as little more than a straightforward work of adaptation: «OK, we're going to take this story and put it on the screen.»

Despite the uptick in remakes, it's extremely difficult to identify a few dozen great ones — particularly when you exclude movies like The Thing, which represent the second attempt at adapting a novel — and yet we can't deny that some of the greatest films ever made wouldn't have been possible without slapping a new paint job on an old chassis.

The game offers a quirky cast of characters with a great art style to back them making it an ideal choice for those looking for their next visual novel in the Otome genre.

Although a great deal of Ellroy's novel had to be pared down in order to accommodate a feature length film, credit the screenwriting team of Brian Helgeland (Conspiracy Theory, The Postman) and Curtis Hanson (The Bedroom Window, The Silent Partner) for being able to tie up all of the loose ends of the original story and make it not only easy to understand, but also to deliver a powerhouse film in the process.

Based on Walter Tevis's cool, hustling, sharply authentic novel, it's one of the great late film noirs and the show that made Newman a mega-star — and made Gleason a movie star as well.

Following his great success with «North by Northwest,» director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel «Psycho.»

Some people played along but many were appalled at the very idea of something as cliched and flimsy as a love triangle defining the young woman they've come to admire so fiercely from Suzanne Collins» best - selling trio of novels, the first adaptation of which makes its way to the screen this weekend amid great fervor and expectation.

The movie beats on, and in its rush to convey the extravagance of the Roaring Twenties and — when that part is complete — the melodramatic beats of Fitzgerald's story (which, on the page, is not at all melodramatic), The Great Gatsby loses that final, essential truth of the novel — that, try as they might, these characters and this world are not making any progress against the current of their memories.

Time - travel movies remain popular in the genre world, but none of them can match the weight and cumulative power of what Linklater managed here, making the simple story of a single family into a Great American Novel by letting it unfold at its own pace.

A heavy diet of movies can make you crave the immersive power of a great novel, the sense of being plunged deep into another person's consciousness, that so few filmmakers promise and even fewer deliver.

They exchange a great deal more dialogue than I required, but students of the Stephenie Meyer novels, who made this 700 - page - plus volume a best - seller, really like that stuff, I guess.

The Road Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: Whether a movie could be made of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize - winning novel about a father and son braving the ruins of post-apocalyptic America was once the subject of spirited debate, and with good reason: John Hillcoat's reverent adaptation may prove too bleak for those seeking tidings of great joy this holiday season, but it is moving, intelligently crafted and perfectly cast.

This book is unusual and engaging, as such it would make an excellent Reading Group study, Extra Curricular Reading Study, Stretch and Challenge, independent novel study, exemplar of «how to» teach a novel for an NQT and a great resource to use for KS3 tutoring or teaching alike.

With the arrival of the Great Society, largely instigated by the Johnson and Nixon administrations (Johnson pictured right), a host of novel programs made new resources and services available to poor families.

If the novel sounds dark, well, it is; but what makes it great is the way in which Donoghue pitch - perfectly captures the voice of Jack in all his childlike wonder — even in the most unimaginable situation.

excursion into the greater complexity of an adult novel, I decided to make several aspects of Gen's life similar to my own.

I also keep a file of character names, another for cool places that might make a great setting for a story or novel, and a file for my bucket list of» I want to write this» before I die.

Another great way of honing your novel prior to publication is to use beta readers — they will make your book so much better.

Anne Perry has never worn her literary colors with greater distinction than in A Sunless Sea, a heart - pounding novel of intrigue and suspense in which Monk is driven to make the hardest decision of his life.

An exhilarating memoir on surfing and its culture, a bold and hilarious takedown of the diet fad and a historical novel filled with espionage in Vietnam make for great group discussion this month.

It's a lot of fun and the first volume made it on the YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2016 list.

«It's great to see The Nightingale perform so well; it suggests that readers continue to come back to novels about WWII, as long as they deliver stories of people and the difficult decisions that war makes them make.

If you prefer graphic novels over classic literature — or if reading walls of text on the iPad's LCD screen strains your eyes — the iPad still makes a great dedicated reader.

But perhaps the greatest pleasure of this novel is glimpsing the world through the keenly observant and imaginative eyes of its irresistible teenage narrator, whose generous, unique, yet ever perceptive outlook makes the world feel more beautiful, more colorful, more cruel and kind, more full of possibility — in short, makes the world feel More.

Great lead characters and a spooky atmosphere make this a spine - tingling, standout novel of romantic suspense.

The parts of this novel that focused on the object's past and on the people who had been involved in its handling were excellent and illuminating; it made great historical fiction.

Some of the most discussed books in the BookPage office this year include Jodi Picoult's Small Great Things, whose black characters have been called out for their flatness, and young adult novel When We Was Fierce, the publication of which was delayed by Candlewick after receiving criticism for its made - up «street dialect.»

Three novels exploring the complexity and resilience of the human spirit make great picks for reading groups this month.

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Add the cold, the blizzard, and a kidnapping and you have the making of a great murder suspense novel, and that is what you will get.

I would bet that the reason so many romance authors and readers find each other here at Smashwords is that they have found a place where they are not treated as second - class citizens, and authors can make a little money, sometimes a lot of money, and readers can find a great romance novel without paying an arm and leg for it.

I've also been reading a lot of really great stuff I can't tell you about yet — advanced readers copies of some terrific novels that will come out next year, as well as a couple of memoirs that should make a splash when their publication times come.

Oprah Winfrey's Summer 2017 Book Club Pick In the vein of Amy Tan and Khaled Hosseini comes a compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream - the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy.