Sentences with phrase «novels featuring characters»

I tend to choose the kind with happy endings: light - hearted novels featuring characters I'd like to spend time with, in settings that I'd like to visit.

The short story collection entitled Interpreter of Maladies is a powerful novel featuring characters caught between cultures, families and often ident

Crews, the pugilist whose many novels feature characters trying to make their way in a South much changed from O'Connor's, follows O'Connor's dictum.

It's no wonder the facts feel cliched — that would seem to be almost inevitable when the facts are always presented in writing (like a noir novel featuring characters) rather than in person (like real life, featuring real people).

Not exact matches

The idea of featuring the justice secretary in novels and plays came from Australian author Kathy Lette, who inserted a character called Chris Grayling into her book Courting Trouble, about a mother - daughter feminist law firm.

light novel, anime, and manga series features a cast of characters created by Tomo Takabayashi and Temari Matsumoto.

Adapted from a Pulitzer Prize - winning novel by Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge is an extraordinary character study, featuring a brilliant performance by Frances McDormand.

A new promotional image arrived online for the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's fantasy epic The Dark Tower via star Tom Taylor's Twitter account featuring his character Jake Chambers along with some key dialogue from the first novel in the series, The Gunslinger...

A new promotional image arrived online for the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's fantasy epic The Dark Tower via star Tom Taylor's Twitter account featuring his character Jake Chambers along with some key dialogue from the first novel in the series, The Gunslinger... SEE ALSO: New images from The Dark Tower featuring Roland Deschain and Jake Chambers SEE -LSB-...]

There's nothing in Tolstoy's novel that suggests such an approach; after all, the book's realism in depicting Russian city and farming life, and in the richness of its character studies, is one of its defining features.

A baker's dozen of books featuring the character of Ezekiel «Easy» Rawlins were penned by author Walter Mosley, and it's a shame the box office failure of Devil in a Blue Dress, the screen adaptation of the first Rawlins novel, prevented any more mysteries from making the leap from page to screen.

Based on Mary Norton's classic novel The Borrowers, this film features striking animation and a story that's rich, detailed and full of vividly engaging characters.

Special Features Ron Howard: Captain's Log - Follow the Director's Filmmaking Voyage Via Exclusive Production Photos and His Personal Twitter Feed Chris Hemsworth and Benjamin Walker Dive into Their Characters» Combative Rivalry Uncover the True Stories of Courage and Obsession That Inspired the Classic Novel «Moby Dick» Deleted and Extended Scenes and More!

Based on Tom Clancy's 1984 debut novel, it is the first to feature the character of Jack Ryan, ex-Marine turned CIA analyst.

Rounding out the special features are twelve «webisodes» — «Production Design,» «Wardrobe,» «Stunt Work,» «Lena Headey,» «Adapting the Graphic Novel,» «Gerard Butler,» «Rodrigo Santoro,» «Training Actors,» «A Glimpse from the Set: Making 300 the Movie,» «Scene Studies from 300,» «Fantastic Characters of 300» — totalling 38 minutes.

Two casting items tonight: Julianne Moore will play the title character in the feature adaptation of Harvard neuroscientist Lisa Genova «s debut novel, Still Alice, about a 50 - year - old woman diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease.

Like the 2014 film, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan will focus on the younger version of the CIA analyst, with the big difference being that the series will have eight hours to help develop the character and get a better look as to why readers have embraced Ryan in Clancy's 24 novels that feature the character.

Gone Baby Gone was based on the fourth entry in Lehane's series centered on private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, but Live By Night will feature characters from Lehane's 2008 period novel, The Given Day.

Coinciding with its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, a new quad poster and eight character one sheets have arrived online for Armando Iannucci's adaptation of the 2011 graphic novel The Death of Stalin featuring Jason Isaacs, Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough, Paul Whitehouse, Rupert Friend, and Simon Russell Beale; check them out below...

Based on the highly praised novel ’48 Shades of Brown» by Nick Earls, 48 Shades attempts the difficult task of delivering the depth of character possible in a piece of writing, in the limited time allowed for a feature film, Continue reading 48 Shades →

Krysten Ritter released her debut novel «Bonfire» last month, featuring a character not unlike her «Jessica Jones» role and a setting much like her...

Director Dee Rees and Virgil Williams» screenplay (based on Hillary Jordan's novel) is vast in its ambitions, featuring five major characters — living on a farm in rural Mississippi in the years before, during, and after World War II — whose lives, motives, and hopes are the central concern.

And Slumdog could hardly be more cross-cultural: a romantic adventure set in India, financed in Europe, made by English filmmakers, featuring Muslim characters speaking Hindi, with a climax hinging on the answer to a question about a French novel.

The lack of human companionship doesn't bother them, though — Nim plays with and talks to her pet lizard and sea lion, and enthusiastically devours a once - a-month shipment of adventure novels featuring a swashbuckling, fedora - sporting character named Alex Rover.

Filmmaker Francis Lawrence, in attempting to expand Suzanne Collins» novel into two features, employs an aggressively lethargic pace that's compounded by a tedious, uneventful opening hour, with the movie's first half comprised almost entirely of sequences in which characters plot their next move.

For the deaf community, the movie, which is based on Brian Selznick's 2011 young adult novel, carries another layer of meaning as a rare story featuring multiple deaf lead characters.

Ahead of its release next month, a batch of new character posters have arrived online for Kenneth Branagh's star - studded adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel, Murder on the Orient Express featuring Branagh, Olivia Colman, Penelope Cruz, Sergei Polunin, Daisy Ridley, Derek Jacobi, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Tom Bateman, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Leslie Odom Jr., Lucy -LSB-...]

William Faulkner's classic 1930 novel, As I Lay Dying, features 15 different characters, each telling a part of the story in their point of view.

His characters» real - world counterparts had another unexpected effect on Last Flag Flying: soon after teaming with Linklater to adapt the novel into a feature screenplay, he learned that Jack Nicholson would not be able to reprise his role from the original film.

Disney has released six new character posters for Ava DuVernay's upcoming adaptation of Madeleine L'Engline's classic novel, A Wrinkle in Time featuring Meg Murry (Storm Reid), Alex Murry (Chris Pine), Kate Murry (Gugu Mbatha - Raw), Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey), Mrs.. Who (Mindy Kaling), and Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon), along with a featurette which takes us behind the scenes of the fantasy adventure; take a look below...

Following a new poster for Ready Player One earlier this week [take a look here], we now have an international trailer for Steven Spielberg upcoming adaptation of Ernest Cline's cult sci - fi fantasy novel, as well as a series of character posters featuring Parzival (Tye Sheridan), Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), Aech (Lena Waithe), Sho (Philip Zhao), Daito (Win -LSB-...]

Though one of his smaller roles, his turn as Colonel Brandon in 1995's big - screen adaption of the time - honored novel features a scaled - back but pretty perfect Rickman as his character tries to win Kate Winslet's Marianne.

Disney has released four new character posters for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time featuring Storm Reid, Reese Witherspoon, Oprah Winfrey, and Mindy Kaling; take a look below... SEE ALSO: Watch the latest trailer for A Wrinkle in Time here «Meg Murry and her little brother, Charles Wallace, -LSB-...]

Much was made about the decision to make The Hobbit, a short and easily - readable novel about one character's adventures, into two three separate features.

Aaron Taylor - Johnson, «Nocturnal Animals» (Focus Features) Playing a fictional character in a novel within a film gives license for flair, and Taylor - Johnson delivers in Tom Ford's latest film.

Featuring the characters from Jane Austen's celebrated novel, the film is a period zombie flick.

The game takes a nice chunk of characters from the various light novel series featured in the Dengeki Magazine.

It contains comprehensive sections on: Context; Chapter by Chapter Summary (with quotes); Main Characters; Themes; Hill's Language Devices; Features of Gothic Novels.

Novels like A Fault in Our Stars and The Pigman are wonderful opportunities for discussing nuanced literary concepts like moral dilemmas, and such books often feature relatable characters that provide opportunities for analysis and discussion.

Students could analyze the various features of the comic / graphic novel genre, or engage in character analysis.

GEN BUZZ — You can create buzz about an upcoming novel by utilizing a short back story for the main character featured in your new series.

As a young reader, did you struggle to find stories that mirrored your life and experiences KELLER: I've written plenty of practice novels and stories before The Science of Breakable Things, but they never featured a main character with my identity.

Book: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach Sport: Baseball at a small Midwestern college Reviewer's verdict: «You don't have to like baseball to savor Chad Harbach's sumptuous debut novel, a wise and tender story of love and friendship, ambition and the cruelty of dashed dreams, featuring an appealing cast of characters.»

I'm currently reading the Penguin Classics translation of The Count of Monte Cristo (much better than the Project Gutenberg version I read years ago) and the Kindle's X-Ray feature, which lets me find out about the many characters and their relatives who pop in and out of the novel, helps me remember what the hell is going on.

Give small reports from your niche, short stories featuring characters from your novels, give a helping hand when asked.

Herman Koch's bestselling novel The Dinner featured a family with questionable morals and several unsavory characters.

This audio production of Hubbard's massive novel — clocking in at 47 listening hours — features 67 actors performing the roles of 198 characters.

I dig the fact that you can translate words into complex Chinese characters, which bodes well for the feature of KF8 and the ability to read graphic novels, manga and comics.

She, like her character Meg, turned into a workaday writer, producing three mystery novels: Dead Clever, In Your Face, and Seaside (all three links go to the full text at Google), featuring the sassy sleuth, Lily Pascale, an English professor who just happens to specialize in horror and crime fiction as well as creative writing.

The novels and picture books included in this feature share several distinct features: the characters have highly permeable universes of obligation, they reach out to and stand up for friends and strangers, and most are upstanders, rather than bystanders, when their participation is called for.