Sentences with phrase «of a great novel»

Sometimes short stories can be the start of great novels.
This ability to engage the reader in such a complex way is the mark of a great novel.
Great characters are the heart and soul of every great novel.
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.
But they didn't fail him, so if it's been a while since you've experienced the power and transcendence of a great novel, read this one.
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?
The first example was when David Young of Hachette gave me a copy of a great novel, The Unnamed.
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.
«In my book... the makings of a great novel: cheating husbands, murder, and hot cowboys.»
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.
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