Sentences with phrase «of the great novels of»

Infinite Jest is considered one of the great novels of the late 20th century.

In the UK, it's considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, let alone spy novels.

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.

- 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.»

Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse - Five in 1969, and it was later hailed as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century.

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.

Not exact matches

To me, innovation and making improvements are fine, but getting to the root of an issue and providing a completely novel solution sets the good apart from the great.»

Not only do figures like Mark Zuckerberg and President Obama credit fiction with expanding their outlook and exercising their minds, but science even suggests that a great novel can boost empathy, a hallmark of excellent leaders.

But if you have $ 16.88 million lying around, you can buy the inspiration for one of the greatest of Great American Novels — because the Long Island house that helped shape The Great Gatsby is up for sale.

They range from great novels to celebrated nonfiction and even classic sources of ancient wisdom:

He set many works in the rural north of his native Michigan, including the detective novels «The Great Leader» and «The Big Seven,» and used Nebraska as the backdrop for one of his most acclaimed works, «Dalva.»

Unicode We use computers for every kind of communication, from IM to e-mail to writing the Great American Novel.

But as bitcoin began attracting greater attention from developers and technologists, novel projects began to use the bitcoin network for purposes other than transfers of value tokens.

DiCaprio played Gatsby in the 2013 film version of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, «The Great Gatsby» set on New York's Long Island.

These theological visions come from many sources, including: apocalyptic books of the Bible from Daniel to Revelation; a nineteenth - century viewpoint on the end of times known as dispensational premillennialism; and images of the so - called «rapture» popularized in novels such as Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) and the more recent Left Behind series.

«He was an artist and she would bear his children and wash his clothes and care for him because there lay her immortality, there lay her own contribution to the great effort to speak the truth, to shape words, to write the novel that by existing would justify the human endeavor, an endeavor so clearly in need of justification,» she writes observing Doc Humes» wife.

Justin Cronin's The Passage has a lot of faith that seeps through all the horror stuff in that book, The Walking Dead graphic novel series is also another great example of that too.

The book has obviously resonated with a great many people since there is a real life Church of All Worlds inspired by it, even if I never grokked the fullness of their devotion to a sci - fi novel.

Great swaths of the novel are devoted to listing out everything Wade knows about one movie or another, one game or another, or one song or another.

• 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).

I completely agree with you in that your statement, «Almost all great stories, novels, myths, and movies have as their core plot the idea of a person who sacrificially gives of himself for others, to rescue and deliver them from some calamity, and in so doing, suffers great personal loss, but ultimately rises into glory,» is no coincidence.

Think of a great novel.

Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away does suggest a more satisfactory relation for human beings between the ordinary and the transcendent though it is, on the face of it, a very strange one indeed.19 Her novel is about a fourteen - year - old boy, Francis Tarwater, who, after the death of his great - uncle, a self - proclaimed prophet, goes to his uncle Rayber in order to fulfill the Lord's «call» that he, Tarwater, baptize Rayber's young idiot son.

In the Williams novel, it is a stone of great power, rather than a ring, but it has the same effect on those who bear it: They become its possession, not its possessor.

And if one would get the feel of the hectic twenties, just before the great depression, he need only read the novels of the times.

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: If you're looking for a novel to help you understand the complexities of race in America while also sucking you into a great story, Americanah by the brilliant, funny, and amazing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a great option.

The novel's greatest service to our current conversation is its ability to humanize Muhammad to millions of people who may know little or nothing about him.

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.

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The dominant influences on general understanding in this vein derived from the contrasting romantic visions of the great French popularizer and Crusade enthusiast Joseph - François Michaud (1767 — 1839) and of Walter Scott, whose novels Ivanhoe and The Talisman contrasted the crude violence of the crusaders (especially the Templars) with the sophistication of the Arabic world they invaded.

By establishing a metaphoric adaptation of certain aspects of Whitehead's thought, he is able to integrate into his novel the second great need of modern man — a viable metaphysics.

A great thing about Robinson, of course, is that she's not only written novels, but lots of essays — philosophic, theological, cultural, and political — for those of us who have that prosaic learning style.

Novels that have been inspired by the likes of Stephen King and others will prove to be a great and very powerfully saught after material after the Rapture for those who are left behind.

Its experience of the extent to which human brutality can go, of the fury that can be unleashed when the human animal is attacked, its acceptance in wry cynicism of the venality of great and small; its acceptance, too, of a psychological analysis that tends to show how slight the power of reason, how great the strength of obscure passions; how corrupting of children the possible love of mothers and the wrath of fathers; its portrayal of men and mankind in bitterly disillusioned novels and in shuddering chronicles of man's inhumanity to man — in all this the 20th century has perhaps gone beyond anything that Edwards said in dispraise of men, individually and in the collective.

A great novelist and great psychological observer such as Proust still does not give us the insight into the essence of man that we find in the novels of Dostoievsky and the poetry of Blake.

The lesson of the transmutation of causal efficacy into presentational immediacy is that great ends are reached by life in the present; life novel and immediate, but deriving its richness by its full inheritance from the rightly organized animal body.

Go Set a Watchman by harper lee harpercollins, 288 pages, $ 27.99 It might be the greatest American literary controversy of recent years: In summer 2015, millions of excited readers discovered to their great dismay ugly racial elements in Harper Lee's new / old novel, Go Set a Watchman.

A research programme is even more resistant to change than a theory, but may eventually be abandoned in favour of a new programme which has greater promise of explaining known data, resolving anomalies, and predicting novel phenomena.

I was in my 40s, lying in bed with one of Patrick O'Brian's great seafaring adventure novels.

The supernatural plot in the LaHaye - Jenkins novels, published by Tyndale House, has true believers taken from the earth in a «rapture» that precedes seven years of suffering — the great tribulation — for those left behind.

It is the great virtue of this novel that it manages to bring us to that simultaneously glorious and terrible realization.

What Nussbaum finds most compelling in great novels is their accounts of the richness of our emotional lives.

My father, who had himself written a novel of great poetic and innocent charm, The Green Child, was clearly dismayed by the scenes of perverse atrocity.

This is as good a place as any to begin a discussion of the most recent translation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby to the big screen — and this time in 3D.

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.

The novel is notorious for its style, told in the particular voice of Nick Carraway, and consequently there has been great difficulty in successfully rendering it into film.

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.

Walker has called The Color Purple a historical novel dealing not «with the taking of lands or the births, battles, and deaths of Great Men,» but with «the historical and psychological threads of the lives my ancestors lived.»