Sentences with phrase «of a great novel ever»

• Murasaki Shikibu, The Diary of Lady Murasaki: Needless to say, The Tale of Genji is the greatest literary achievement of the glorious Heian period of Japanese high culture, and one of the greatest novels ever written, and so I win no points for needless obscurity here, but having recommended Lady Sarashina's journal above, I would be remiss in failing to recommend Lady Murasaki's equally (but very differently) lovely collection of vignettes and meditations and acute observations (and gossip).

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.

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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.

By asserting the process - theoretic foundations of our world, we can maintain both science and God and thus escape the materialist malaise - perhaps never better expressed than in this brief excerpt from a work held by many to be the greatest novel ever written:

Sigmund Freud, while numbering the man Dostoevsky among the criminals, has called The Brothers Karamazov the greatest novel ever written, and the Grand Inquisitor legend one of the artistic pinnacles of the Western world.

(Ridley Scott and George Miller collaboration maybe...) Yes, it was a box office failure, but the novel is considered one of the greatest Sci - Fi works ever.

Despite the uptick in remakes, it's extremely difficult to identify a few dozen great ones — particularly when you exclude movies like The Thing, which represent the second attempt at adapting a novel — and yet we can't deny that some of the greatest films ever made wouldn't have been possible without slapping a new paint job on an old chassis.

Fyodor Dostoevsky is often cited as one the greatest novelists who ever wrote about the problem of evil and this innovative short film is inspired by his powerful novel The Brothers Karamazov.

Elizabeth Crane's latest novel, The History of Great Things, is a poignant dual narrative featuring a mother and daughter whose disparate paths ultimately prevent them from ever truly understanding each other.

He wrote: «You can be an Indian novelist or a Jordanian novelist and still avail yourself of the greatest subject the novel has ever had.

In the same way that it has been said many times that the late great Steve Goodman wrote the perfect «country and western» song, let me be the first to say that — for all the reasons just enumerated and many more — I believe Elizabeth Stuckey - French has written the best «book group» novel ever, and I mean that as the warmest of praise.

So, in an effort to spread this awareness that graphic novels are just that, «novels with images,» I give you a list of ten of the greatest graphic novels ever printed.

But perhaps the greatest pleasure of this novel is glimpsing the world through the keenly observant and imaginative eyes of its irresistible teenage narrator, whose generous, unique, yet ever perceptive outlook makes the world feel more beautiful, more colorful, more cruel and kind, more full of possibility — in short, makes the world feel More.

Michael Koryta, long hailed as one of the best young thriller writers at work today, has written his greatest novel ever - an emotionally harrowing, unstoppably suspenseful novel that proves why Michael Connelly has named him «one of the best of the best.»

Potential banana skins abound From simple things like Amazon's patent for reselling ebook licences (bound to have an impact on ebook sales especially of lead titles if it were ever to be put into practice) or like discovering that despite having a great product your brand just doesn't resonate with consumers beyond your core audience and hence you lose a bundle of cash trying to sell them tablets or realizing that your main competitor is not the rival publisher of literary novels or commercial non-fiction but a game in which trajectory considerations are a more important aspect of gameplay than would normally be considered cool and various music video fads from Gangnam Style to Harlem Shake.

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The sequel to Steins; Gate — which is widely considered to be one of the greatest visual novels ever made — continues from the ending of...

Grammy Award - Winning DJ and platinum selling artist Paul Oakenfold is telling the «not quite true» story of his life as one of the progenitors of electronic music and one the greatest DJ's of all time with his first ever book, a graphic novel which features an original soundtrack by Oakenfold.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature ever written.

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.

But your starting point is here, in the photo gallery here: our list of the greatest law novels ever.

There were a lot of great books that didn't make our list of «The 25 Greatest Law Novels Ever,» and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood was one of them.