Sentences with phrase «novels by authors»

For Painting Between The Lines, fourteen contemporary painters created newly commissioned paintings based on descriptions of paintings in historical and contemporary novels by authors such as Marcel Proust, Samuel Beckett, Sylvia Plath, and Milan Kundera.

Recently I've picked up several novels by authors I've been meaning to read but have never seemed to get around to reading, like Charles... Continue reading →

It's been used for several popular television characters like Charlie Brown's Lucy to literary characters in novels by authors like Charlotte Bronte.

Adapted from Ian McEwan's 2007 novel by the author himself, it holds viewers in its genteel grip from start to almost finish.

Instead, «This Is Where I Leave You,» directed by Shawn Levy and adapted from Jonathan Tropper's novel by the author himself, seems to be constantly questioning — or doubting — what it is.

This is third in the series, preceded by The Witcher and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, which are based on the series of fantasy novels by author Andrzej Sapkowski.

But now he's back with The Snowman, an adaptation of the popular novel by author Jo Nesbø that centers on a dogged detective attempting to stop an elaborate serial killer's twisted rampage.

«Ready Player One,» which is based on the novel by author Ernest Cline, is a dystopian sci - fi tale about gamers competing for control of a virtual world.

Based on the novel by author Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, Rules Of Attraction).

Call Me By Your Name is a film based on the 2007 novel by author André Aciman.

(She's clearly a genius, racking up the royalties for a recently published novel by an author she discovered, and issuing directives such as, «Let's increase the font size two points for the print edition.»)

The story, adapted from Peter Craig's novel by the author and Andrea Berloff, begins with a young woman who could be Link's salvation, his destruction, or maybe both.

Paul Thomas Anderson wrote the screenplay based on a novel by author Thomas Pynchon.

The filmmaker reportedly is developing a pilot based on the Edge series of violent Western novels by author Terry Harknett.

Check it out below after the official synopsis... Adapted from the bestselling novel by author John Green («The Fault in Our Stars»), PAPER TOWNS is a coming - of - age story centring on Quentin and his -LSB-...]

The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History — a best - seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most astonishing debuts in recent times — The Little Friend is even more transfixing and resonant.

A mysterious and beguiling love story with elements of Poe, Twain, Hemingway, and Greek mythology, drawn in moody black - and - white charcoal, this new paperback edition of the New York Times Best - Selling graphic novel by author / illustrator Mark Siegel is a study in romance, atmosphere, and suspense.

Set in Paris and in the enchanting landscape of central Asia, this new novel by the author of the international bestsellers The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes follows the journey of a man obsessed with finding the wife who left him without an explanation.

This long, claustrophobically written novel by the author of The People in the Trees (2013) follows the lives of four college men (and their many friends, nearly all male) from their early postgraduation days in New York through much of their accomplished adult lives, and backward to their childhoods.

A new novel by the author of The Forgiven, about a Mediterranean vacation that takes a terrifying turn.

Romancing the Beat: Story Structure for Romance Novels Gwen Hayes 2016, 100 Pages, Kindle Edition ISBN - 13: 978 - 1530838615 ISBN - 10: 1530838614 Romancing the Beat is a concise book on story structure for the romance novel by author and editor Gwen Hayes, who herself confesses to loving «kissing books.»

I was expecting Cum Laude, the «grown - up» novel by the author of the Gossip Girl series, to be a guilty pleasure of the variety you hold on your lap at the coffee shop, lest anyone observe you enjoying such lowbrow fare.All the sweeter, then, to discover that Cum Laude is a smart and compassionate portrait of one girl's first year in college, perfectly capturing the mix of...

I have done my share of deep and heavy reading this summer, so it was a great pleasure to read a crime fiction novel by an author new to me.

- Kirkus «This new novel by the author of the popular debut Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet paints a many - colored entangled double portrait of a young boy and a woman.

Today we have a sneak peek from the character - driven suspense novel by author K. S. Brooks: Night Undone.

Not a bargain, but what she would pay for a novel by an author she knows and likes?

Eight novels by author Lynn Austin have won Christy Awards for excellence in Christian fiction, and she was named to the Christy Award Hall of Fame.

If you're an avid reader and you're willing to read a first, second, or third novel by an author building his or her career, then please enter your info below and look out for our next offering from the genre / s you love.

Toronto, Ontario About Blog Reviews of Science Fiction and Fantasy novels by the author Jessica Stride.

Not exact matches

The author admitted to fans of the story — both in written and televised form — that there may be some aspects of the novels that are spoiled by seeing the acted adaptation first, but also acknowledged how the story differs between the two mediums.

«If you are into fantasy novels, here's a first novel that was written by the author on his New York City subway commute,» Schluep says explaining this pick.

Editor's note: «Artemis» is the second sci - fi novel written by Andy Weir, author of the blockbuster sci - fi novel «The Martian.»

Indeed, if you listen on occasion to O'Leary's turns on the radio, you may observe he speaks at times like a character out of a novel by the libertarian author Ayn Rand.

The story of Rasputin may almost be read as another Russian novel, written not by any single author but by the culture as a whole.

In Orwell's dystopian novel, a totalitarian state maintains social control by obfuscating reality, using what the British author called «Newspeak» and «doublethink» to compel its subjects to acknowledge as true what they know is false.

What is FAR, FAR more remarkable (and perplexing) is that the world population is 20 % Muslim... and yet with 18,453 people killed by ISLAMIC Terror merely since 9/11, virtually the whole Islamic world goes nuts over a political cartoon by an older Danish cartoonist (Westergaard), or a novel by a World Class MUSLIM AUTHOR (Salman Rushdie), and that years and years later, this so - called «religion» incites the murder of these people.

Anne Lamott is the New York Times best - selling author of Some Assembly Required, Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies, as well as several novels.

All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner:: I've liked some of this author's novels but others....

The author of this article appears to have not read one complete novel or non-fiction essay by Rand or, apparently, the Old and New Testaments.

Most novels, Bakhtin argued, are «monologic,» unified by a cunning plot or the perspective of the narrator or author.

Martineau is regarded by everyone, including the author of the novel, as being slightly dotty.

She is a young mother of two and author of popular novels set in Malta, published by Progress Press.

Helena is a traveller - from Colchester to Rome to Jerusalem - who begins her travels not knowing where she is going or why, but who ends the novel by being led, we assume, by a greater author who works through and with the narrator and his characters.

As Thomas Woodman points out: «In recent years the rise of postmodernist fiction and of such modes as «magic realism» [as exemplified most obviously by Latin American authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez] have called into question the whole privileging of realism in the novel genre.»

Author: Rob ChidleyThis debut novel by Rob Chidley is a tale of raw hope overcoming the bleakest of realities.

He's questing and enigmatic, something like Ivan Karamazov, his favorite character in his favorite novel by his favorite author.

[According to William Beckford, author of the gothic novel, Vathek] «Those wild boars that I have seen brought in by the negroes, or the parts of which I have occasionally received as presents, do not in, colour or in size, resemble those in Europe: they rather appear to be the progeny of swine that have strayed into the woods; and which, from having been once tame, partake of the habits of, and now become, wild, but are not, rigidly speaking, of the same species.

Jillian Lauren is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and the novel, Pretty, both published by Plume / Penguin.

September 15, 2015 • Author and screenwriter Richard Russo has selected our third book — a new novel by Lauren Groff.

Linda Grant, author of the Booker - shortlisted novel The Clothes on Their Backs, said she was organising a protest against the rule while Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, said he had started a mission to get «every writer in the UK publicly opposed to this by tea time».