Sentences with phrase «modern fiction»

How is a writer's gender relevant to a work of modern fiction?

If you read classics, genre and modern fiction by authors no longer with us or wish to venture into this territory and discuss these books, welcome you'll fit right in.

He also kept up to date with modern fiction and political and economic books.

Similarly, I found that modern fiction tended to skirt the issue completely.

With one of the most heart - stopping openings in modern fiction, After You'd Gone is a work of extraordinary psychological depth and impressive maturity.

It is a fairy tale for adults, both a work of modern fiction and fantasy, and at times very bleak.

The game encompasses almost every range of time that is popular with modern fiction.

Nothing delves deep into philosophical territory in a way that few modern fiction novels (especially YA novels) do.

It's ready - made for book club or classroom discussions, and it's guaranteed to provide (forgive me) food for thought long after you have finished reading... Nothing delves deep into philosophical territory in a way that few modern fiction novels (especially YA novels) do.

Exclusive to Indigo, this series of modern fiction titles comes wrapped in hues approved by the international colour authorities at Pantone.

The beautiful joyousness of their polytheism is only a poetic modern fiction.

While the apparent subject of Living by Fiction is thus modern fiction, Dillard seems more interested in the notion of fiction as a metaphor for culture and creativity.

We also have advanced search features so that you can find someone suited to you — whether that's an individual who likes to hike or someone who loves to read modern fiction — or both!

This is not a film easy to love or even like, but it's also one that makes a substantial impression on you with its lack of artifice and the light it shines on tragic figures about whom modern fiction rarely considers and modern society hardly notices.

BookPage Whodunit columnist Bruce Tierney writes, «Dark, demented, radical and grotesquely humorous, Sorry upends every convention of modern fiction craft, and brilliantly.

Don't feel that my profile does me much justice as I read so much and quite enjoy classical literature as well as modern fiction and will be reading a book on the history of the Tower of London once my library gets it back.

If Jane Austen were writing today, her work would be very different, because she would not have been around 200 years ago to shape modern fiction.

Clive Barker has made his mark on modern fiction by exposing all that is surreal and magical in the ordinary world...

Hence, true modern fiction was born.

Yet there is nothing else quite like them in English literature, and you can see why C. S. Lewis pressed them upon his friends, why J. R. R. Tolkien, no great reader of modern fiction, found them compelling, and why another fan, T. S. Eliot — like Williams, a London publisher with an adherence to the Catholic wing of the Church of England — borrowed from one of them, The Greater Trumps, a key image in The Four Quartets: «At the still point of the turning world.»

In Father Joe, Powers has achieved that rare accomplishment of creating a fully rounded character like no other in modern fiction.

It has seemed clear all along that Dillard is interested in something besides an account of trends in modern fiction.

But the modern fictions differed from the ancient myths, as well as from real social networks, in several ways.

The character social networks of all the stories, including the modern fictions, were «small world» and highly clustered.

This is very clearly a product of Kevin Williamson, his irony - heavy postmodern style full of references to modern fiction (Independence Day, Men in Black, «The X-Files», etc.).

Though some may know of Greene's connection to the movies only by way of his brilliant scripts for Carol Reed's masterpieces The Fallen Idol and The Third Man, as Tonkin puts it, «No giant of modern fiction has ever had such a long and — mostly — fruitful liaison with the cinema as Graham Greene.»

It features several of the most popular and identifiable characters in modern fiction and, by most markers, fails to live up to even their pulpy roots.

Hornby's novel is one of the better choices in the modern fiction area of a library, mixing interesting comparisons between two characters with the always enjoyable Hornby writing style.

Seen by many as an allegory for WWII — with the demonic overlord as Hitler — and interpreted by others, with its «slant - eyed» and yellow - skinned Orcs, as a virulently racist tract, The Lord of the Rings is indisputably a benchmark in modern fiction, gaining its popularity from the paperback release in the 1960s.

Library Journal said Personal Effects «may herald the future of modern fiction.»

The award's aim is to draw attention to «poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction,» with the hope of encouraging authors to think twice before including them in their novels.

You also need to understand the basics of modern fiction.

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published far over a hundred and fifty novels in forty years, and hundreds and hundreds of short stories and non-fiction books.

The search results are great and cover various categories such as classics, textbooks, math & science, children's books, philosophy & religion, plays, modern fiction, fantasy & romance, foreign language, history & culture, arts & entertainment, mystery and poetry.

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published far more than a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres.

According to the Review, «The purpose of the prize is to draw attention to poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction, and to discourage them.»

The protagonist is one of the most unlikely in modern fiction, but this book is a stunner.

A talented storyteller, he has a unique ear, a clever eye, an eloquence all too rare in modern fiction.»

I like a lot of modern fiction and there is no way to get that for Kindle without paying for it.

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published far over a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds and hundreds of short stories across many genres.

One of modern fiction's of most prolific writers, USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith is the author of more than a hundred novels (in forty years!).

In an essay entitled «A Strong Race Opinion: On The Indian Girl in Modern Fiction,» which was originally published in the Toronto Sunday Globe on 22 May 1892, Johnson spoke out about the images of the «Indian squaw» that were presented in mainstream literature.

Oregon, USA About Blog Benjamin J. Law is an author of fantasy and modern fiction.