Sentences with phrase «novella with»

Macbeth translated, or interpreted, Franz Kafka's novella with little knowledge of German and without a dictionary.

I'm a hybrid author, having published with a big 6 or two, but also indie published, and just about to release a novella with a digital - only publisher.

This is a BBW & alpha standalone novella with HEA, no cliffhanger.

The submission must be a story that has potential to lead - up to a completed original romance novel or novella with a central love story (or an original commercial fiction novel with elements of romance) and have at least a hint of conflict that by the end of a completed novel, would have to have an emotionally satisfying resolution, optimistic and / or a «happy ever after» ending.

This Kindle ebook pairs the novella with Nathanel West's second most famous work, The Day of the Locust, another critical look at American society, and the ebook comes with a new introduction by author Jonathan Lethem (author of the novel Fortress of Solitude).

And I'm willing to bet that when she does the actual print release of the novella with it's 2 companion novellas later this year, she's going to see a big difference from having done this little experiment.

An Old West coming - of - age novella with bronc riding, horse rustling, Native American wisdom, and the desert landscape.

I needed a rest from writing all that serious thriller stuff, and started thinking about rekindling a Steampunk Epic Fantasy, and recently, developing a YA Superhero novella with my ten year old daughter.

I'm considering trying to upload a novella with them too... haven't decided for the novel yet!

After reading the first Jet book I agreed and decided it would be really fun to write a novella with these two powerful female characters.

I'm a very big fan of Ayoade's feature directorial debut Submarine (watch it on Netflix), and happily dived headfirst into his second feature, The Double, based on an 1846 Dostoevsky novella with a dystopian plot involving a worker whose entire life is thrown into disarray when his doppleganger shows up.

She is the author of 75 + novels and novellas with over five million copies in print.

I found 26 opportunities ranging from flash fiction all the way to novellas with some excellent regional (i.e. lower competition) writing contests.

It's hard to compare novellas with novels (I've always found that my book - length works sell better), but if those had started selling extremely well, I could have written more of them.

Anthologies of short stories / novellas with new material — Recycled material can work for big bundles, but new material will appeal even more to your existing readers.

Not exact matches

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the novella which was later adapted into the film The Shawshank Redemption with Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, was basically a Christ metaphor in itself.

There's also a bit of discussion of Berry's novella Remembering, which I read this Spring with the book - club and highly recommend — starts a bit slow, but develops into a truly — oh, what the heck — memorable reading experience.

The novella closes with a paean to sex and nature that sounds embarrassingly like Hugh Hefner mixed with Carl Sagan.

As a reward for making it through my short novella of a review, you get this recipe for Brussels sprouts with shallots and tofu bacon!

While I chose to read the novellas in line with the novels, this certainly isn't required.

Kate Beckinsale, star of the new film Love & Friendship based on a Jane Austen novella, reads and reacts to Victorian - era dating advice with the help of a gentleman straight out of the 1800s.

18:2), and no one will be overwhelmed with novellas of surplus information.

Despite its distracting overuse of Dutch angle shots, this is a classic film noir crafted beautifully by Reed and Graham Greene (who worked on it by writing his excellent novella), with a fascinating villain, a fabulous post-war Vienna as its location and a perfect choice for a score.

The overwhelming English sadness of Ian McEwan's novella On Chesil Beach has been transferred to the movie screen, adapted by the author and directed with scrupulous sensitivity and care by Dominic Cooke, known for his stage work and making his feature film debut here.

Based on Ian McEwan's novella of the same name, the film follows a pair of honeymooners (Saoirse Ronan and a revelatory Billy Howle) on their first night together, interspersed with a series of flashbacks that clarify the shaky state of their newly - sealed relationship.

Based on the novella by Jim Harrison about the Ludlow brothers - two men (Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn) in love with the same woman (Julia Ormond).

LOVE & FRIENDSHIP: Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale) tries to play matchmaker with her daughter in director Whit Stillman's adaptation of Jane Austen's novella «Lady Susan.»

He started with the dramatic Shawshank Redemption, based on Steven King's novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.

This approach may have produced an Imamura masterpiece, but misunderstood the deliberate stylisation of Fukazawa's novella, Kinoshita's committed engagement throughout his career with the clash of tradition and modernity, as well as the place of desire and taboo in Japanese society.

That or I don't understand what Ramsay is trying to show with the changes she made from the novella.

Transposing a Tolstoy novella to contemporary Paris, L'argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates as a prop in a schoolboy prank, then circulates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous alike before landing with a young truck driver and leading him to incarceration and violence.

The BBC is teaming up with Harry Potter producer David Heyman's Heyday Television for a new miniseries adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1952 novella The Birds, famously adapted for the big screen by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963.

Tracing inspiration to a yarn from one of Giovanni Boccaccio's collected 14th century novellas in The Decameron, the new ensemble film from Jeff Baena wraps it religious habit up with wit, erotica, and practical jokes from Italian prose translated into a modern vernacular.

The extraordinary beauty and energy of Scott's film (he not only directed but also served as camera operator) is never gratuitous, but rather keeps stylistic faith with the enigmatic Joseph Conrad novella on which it is based.

The first Fantastic Beasts film, adapted by Rowling from her novella, already has a set date of November 18, 2016, with the sequels penciled in for 2018 and 2020.

Production company A Bigger Boat has optioned the rights to Throttle, a novella from Stephen King and his son Joe Hill, with THR reporting that producer Emile Gladstone has tapped John Scott III (Maggie) to pen the script for a big screen adaptation.

King would pull off his love letter to «losers» much more convincingly with IT, published just a few years after the novella Silver Bullet is based on, and this may account for some of the film's weaknesses.

Stillman infuses this sharp - witted, frisky tale — based on the Jane Austen novella Lady Susan — with a bubbly effervescence as the widowed Susan (Beckinsale) maneuvers her way through society and finagles her way out of scandal while trying to gain matrimonial advantage for herself and her daughter during a visit to her in - laws.

In Gore Vidal's early gay novella The City And The Pillar, Jim can not have Bob, the now - married object of his affections, and so he rapes his ex-lover in a hotel room; the original draft ended with Bob's murder.

This is a deft, clever adaptation by director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Christopher Hampton of Colette's Chéri novellas, with a commanding star turn by Michelle Pfeiffer as the aging courtesan, Léa, who falls for the corrupted youth, Chéri.

And so, with a fifth child on the way and Italian interior decorators to pay, the writer decides to dash off and self - publish a novella about Christmas — after, of course, being rejected by his publisher, whose dismissive comments about the holiday partly inspire the old cheapskate Scrooge.

It's a notion that isn't new, with Fyodor Dostoevsky writing the classic story «The Double» ages ago, but co-writer and director Richard Ayoade takes it to absurdly comic places in his adaptation of the novella for this sophomore film.

This crime story, adapted from a novella by Bored to Death writer Jonathan Ames, is about an ex-soldier named Joe (Phoenix) who finds himself tasked with recovering a kidnapped girl amidst a sinister political conspiracy involving human trafficking.

I'm with the band: Doper ditties, sea shanties and surf rock Before the 2009 publication of Inherent Vice, the usual plunge into Pynchon began with his second work, the 1966 novella The Crying of Lot 49, slim by his subsequent standards.

With its fades to blinding white and its atmosphere of testosterone - fueled paranoia, Carpenter's remake hews more closely to the source material — John W. Campbell, Jr.'s 1938 novella «Who Goes There?»

Periodically, the voice of Anjelica Huston pops up, narrating the action as though she were reading from an eloquent slice - of - life novella, rich with detail and irony.

Richard Ayoade branches out into steampunk paranoia with this feisty and funny adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1846 novella.

The first taste of Disch's novella The Brave Little Toaster, then, came to me by way of a feature - length animated adaptation from Disney that, a little like Babe: Pig in the City, probably caused enough consternation in the hearts and minds of studio PR to result in its relegation to a minor theatrical push with a botched advertising campaign.

The perfect symbiosis between artists of different centuries; writer - director Whit Stillman brought Jane Austen's long - forgotten novella «Lady Susan» to the screen, building upon it in a way that reminded us that, with his tales of worldly-wise but heart - foolish young people, he's been doing Austen all along anyway.

You Were Never Really Here Scottish director Lynne Ramsay approaches this crime film, based on Jonathan Ames» novella, about a hit man who takes an assignment that has something to do with a brothel for underage girls, as though slumming.