10:00 pm — TCM — To Kill a Mockingbird Widely regarded as one of the best adaptations
of a great novel ever, To Kill a Mockingbird captures the themes and mood of the novel perfectly, following the racial and social tensions of a murder trial in the South.
During Lent, I've been rewatching the magnificent 1981 BBC production of Brideshead Revisited — the best TV adaption ever
made of a great novel, in part because of the stunning cast but in larger part because Evelyn Waugh's book is the screenplay.
The Royal Tenenbaums has been described as an
adaptation of a great novel that doesn't exist, and it is set in an upper Upper West Side that also doesn't exist.
The sheer length and
complexity of great novels, their patient playing out of the consequences of our moral choices, make them infinitely more useful than the brief schematic narratives that are commonly employed by moral philosophers to illustrate their claims.
One thinks of the great opening
line of that great novel The Good Soldier: «This is the saddest story I have ever heard.»
A heavy diet of movies can make you crave the immersive
power of a great novel, the sense of being plunged deep into another person's consciousness, that so few filmmakers promise and even fewer deliver.
On the other hand, I have read quite a
number of GREAT novels that were self - published on Kindle, Nook and iBooks.
As BookPage's fiction editor, I get to read (or at least partially read) dozens and
dozens of great novels every month.
Like his masterly, Pulitzer Prize - winning biography Truman, David McCullough's John Adams has the sweep and
vitality of a great novel.
And it clearly is an art, for a great literary biography (Atlas singles out Richard Holmes» Shelley: The Pursuit) can, and ideally should, sing with the narrative
resonance of the great novels or poems that its subject produced.
How often do you come to the
end of a great novel, an enlightening article or an inspiring poem and immediately set out to learn more about the author?
In Sandrine's Case he has written one
of his greatest novels yet, a literary mystery about a man who unspools the story of his fractured relationship with his wife, as he stands trial for her murder.
Drawing on his award - winning journalism experience, Bill has edited and revived lost classics of Victorian true - crime cases, anthologies of Sherlock Holmes fanfiction, and deluxe
versions of great novels by Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie.
Thackeray, author of Vanity Fair, one
of the great novels of 19th - century English literature, expresses this joy so: «It was her life which the baby drank in from her bosom.
Infinite Jest is considered one
of the great novels of the late 20th century.
And looking back even further, the original book on which it is all based by revered French author Victor Hugo is regarded as one
of the greatest novels of the 19th century.
In the UK, it's considered one
of the greatest novels of the 20th century, let alone spy novels.
OSCAR CHANCES: When your source material is one
of the greatest novels of the 20th Century an adapted screenplay nomination isn't out of the question.
This beautiful book was recommended to me by the editor Mark Richards, who had recently discovered it and believed it to be one
of the greatest novels of the 20th century, albeit sadly neglected.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece is only 55,000 words long, and it's considered by many — myself included — to be one
of the greatest novels ever written.
- David Abrams, author of Fobbit «Fives and Twenty - Fives is one
of the great novels of war, the kind of book that comes along only once or twice each generation.»
Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one
of the greatest novels of Chinese literature ever written.
Bluecoat, Liverpool's centre for the contemporary arts, is to host the international launch of an earlier version of Merseyside - born writer Malcolm Lowry's acclaimed book, Under the Volcano, which is regarded as one
of the greatest novels of the 20th century.
Artist Statement «A must addition to «Recovering The Classics» campaign, «Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West» - Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece has been aclaimed as one
of the greatest novels...
Where a small town with a sawmill sits perched back on the bluff — the setting for one
of the greatest novels of NW literature ever, The Brothers K.
We composed a ballot that included more than 100
of the greatest novels ever written — novels whose storylines revolved around lawyers or legal cases or the moral milieu of the law.