Sentences with phrase «novellas as»

More authors will begin writing multiple works such as shorts and novellas as a way to build their brand and as a reaction to the free mentality growing among readers.

Today it's becoming more common and cost effective to publish novellas as eBooks.

Charles Thomas Tester does not begin the novellas as the titular Black Tom, but his journey from loving son and gentle grifter to a furious mage with world - ending powers will break your heart with how much sense it makes.

Ebook publishers have offered the shorter novellas as single titles especailly in romance for about the last eight years at least.

The 2017 International Digital Awards Contest named TWO Jordan Dane novellas as first and second place in the Suspense Short category.

I am so glad that you enjoyed this collection of novellas as much as you did.

It gets onto the screen just about as much of the novella as one could reasonably expect, and is engrossing and moving in its own right.

Helps students to plan answer, making links to context and the novella as a whole.

She's self - published eight novels and one novella as e-books.

For example: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000.

In the context of the novella, the concept is simple: publish the novella as an ebook and then make it available for free download on sites like Smashwords and Kobo, etc..

Marketing a novella as a book can also frustrate readers and prevent follow through.

Not exact matches

As the great Russian poet Pushkin said in his novella Dubrovsky, «If there happens to be a trough, there will be pigs.»

Melville had as well a second reason to hate Manhattan — the whole urban world of «Cain's city and citified man,» as he wrote in Billy Budd (1924), the novella whose publication helped restore his literary reputation thirty years after his death.

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!

Former Surgeon General Dr. Antonia Novella is quoted as saying: «It's the lucky baby, I feel, who continues to nurse until he's two.»

So perhaps when F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his novella «The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,» the idea wasn't as far - fetched as he might have thought.

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.

If so, it's one of several that can be reserved early for this fourth, spectacularly lousy screen version of Jack Finney's 1954 novella «The Body Snatchers,» which some bright light envisioned as the ideal starring vehicle for the Cold Mountain herself, Nicole Kidman, and for Daniel Craig, last seen as the most poker - faced James Bond on record.

Ramsay's screenplay is based on a novella by Jonathan Ames, which scans as the leanest of prose.

What I will say is that as I was watching Ghost Story, there's this part where Krige, as the ghost Eva, promises her lover that she «will show [him] things [he's] never seen» in a supernaturally menacing sort of way that will be echoed exactly by Clive Barker's Cenobites in the novella The Hellbound Heart from 1986.

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.

JJ Abrams and Ron Howard perhaps paused to consider as they passed that few King books much longer than a novella have actually proved cinematic.

Released: September 29 Cast: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Henry Thomas, Carel Struycken Director: Mike Flanagan (Hush) Why it's great: Like 128 Hours for BDSM amateurs, this adaptation of Stephen King's psychological novella gifts Gugino — long overlooked by Hollywood and underappreciated by her directors — the role of a lifetime, as Jessie, a woman handcuffed to a bed by her recently deceased husband who struggles to break free before starvation, dehydration or something worse sets in.

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.

Lady Susan, an early Jane Austen manuscript that apparently never made it to the rewriting stage and was published over fifty years after Austen's death as an unfinished novella, is the unlikely source of Whit Stillman's new film, Love & Friendship.

Right, and also interestingly Eric Rohmer wrote all of his movies as short stories or novellas and then he turned those into screenplays, which is a fascinating way to do it.

Few of his books drew you in quite as powerfully as «Cycle of the Werewolf», a short novella featuring fantastic artwork by the late, great Bernie Wrightson.

If you've read John Steinbeck's novella «Of Mice and Men» which is frequently required high - school reading, you'll immediately recognize the fraternal bonds of Connie and Nick as reflecting the tender relationship of George Milton and Lenny Small.

An adaptation of Christian Cantrell's 2010 novella, The Epoch Index «centers on CIA analyst Quinn Mitchell as she aims to redeem herself after personal -LSB-...]

Mamoulian's version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is widely regarded as the pre-eminent film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886.

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.

Recently adapted into a television series, King's 1980 novella first appeared on screen as the third King film from director Frank Darabont.

The latest exercise in this genre, premiering Sunday on BBC America, is «Killing Eve,» an eight - part series (already renewed) created by Phoebe Waller - Bridge from a series of novellas by Luke Jennings, collected as «Codename Villanelle.»

The epic scale (several decades) as well as the ultimately uplifting message of Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption meant that the novella was perfectly suited to a»90s Oscar - worthy Hollywood drama.

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.

Based on a bizarre Joe R. Lansdale novella, «Bubba Ho - Tep» stars Bruce Campbell as an aging Elvis Presley who comes out of hiding at a Texas retirement home to fight off a soul - sucking Egyptian mummy that's been rampaging through the community in a cowboy outfit.

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.

,» «I Love You More Than You Know,» «The Alcoholic» (a graphic - novel), «The Double Life Is Twice as Good,» and the novella «You Were Never Really Here,» which is now a film directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Joaquin Phoenix.

The film is set in the narrowest sliver of historical time, the immediately pre-youthquake Britain of 1962, when, as Ian McEwan writes in the novella upon which the movie is based, «to be young was a social encumbrance... a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.»

Now she looks to Jonathan Ames» novella about a grown man whose experience growing up in the shadow of the domestic battlefield of his parents and his later experience on the very real battlefield of the Middle East informs his work as a vigilante whose choice of weapon is a «Master Series» ball - pein hammer.

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.

This 1946 drama was adapted from the novella Glory for Me by MacKinlay Kantor, an American author who had served as a war correspondent in London and interviewed many U.S. troops.

Adapted from a Jonathan Ames novella, the movie stars a heavily bearded Joaquin Phoenix as a severely troubled, hammer - wielding assassin whose latest job will either kill him or give him a reason to keep living.

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.

Both Kevin and You Were Never Really Here, which is based on a 2013 noir novella by Jonathan Ames, are more easily branded as the kind of hip, glossy artsploitation that's in vogue among many of the world's most talented young and mid-career filmmakers.

A free retelling of Henry James» vintage Gothic novella The Turn of the Screw, The Turning stars Mackenzie Davis (Tully) as a tender woman employed to function the governess for a person's nephew and niece following the demise in their folks.

Adapted from a Jonathan Ames novella, Ramsay's film has been billed as an «enticing challenge» and an «elegant homage to a mold of scrappy detective stories that often collapses into a concise pileup of stylish possibilities,» but there's no doubt that it offers Phoenix one of his best roles yet, and more proof of Ramsay's ability to turn complex material into something thoroughly her own.

Ian McEwan's novella of sexual repression and miscommunication in a fast - changing Britain lands with Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle as a couple suffering through a seaside honeymoon.

In Haigh's adaptation of the Willy Vlautin novella of the same name, Charlie Plummer (previously seen as the ill - fated John Paul Getty III in Ridley Scott's All The Money In The World) plays the introverted Charley whose nomadic life with his womanising yet loving father (Travis Fimmel) sees him transplanted to Portland, Oregon.