Sentences with phrase «other old novels»

The Count of Monte Cristo was published in serialized form, like serveral other old novels I've recently read on the Kindle (including The Insidious Dr. Fu - Manchu and Adventures of Sherlock Holmes).

Not exact matches

Given that great ideas often come from older, other ideas — I asked Berkun why there continues to be such prestige (at least in the U.S.) attached to original or novel concepts.

The personality of Noe may largely conform to the Old Testament's abjurement of what Harold Bloom calls «inwardness,» but other aspects of the novel only seem to emulate its source.

He says that «Luke sees the new community as something novel... [and] does not require a total link to the old era other than to share in the promise to which it has always looked.

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

A solution had to be found, but it would have to come from sources other than the old English order [that is, the «ancient realm or the Anglican tradition»] The deep - seated tensions of early seventeenth - century English society had to be solved by some rather novel rearrangements of political and legal institutions.

This fried rice recipe is familiar in some ways — using day old rice and eggs — but quite novel in others.

Michael Green and Bryan Fuller are leading the team adapting Gaiman's novel (with the writer himself involved), chronicling the struggle between the gods of old (mythological legends from around the world) and new (reflecting modern society's love for money, technology and celebrity, among other things).

The Golden Compass (PG - 13 for fantasy violence) Epic escapist fantasy, based on Philip Pullman's award - winning novel, about a precocious 12 year - old scholar (Dakota Blue Richards) already attending Oxford who ventures into a parallel universe to save her best friend and other children kidnapped by an evil organization known as the Gobblers.

There's really not much to the plot other than for the protagonists to be chased around by the monster horde, while Stine seeks to write an all - new novel in the manner he wrote his old one (in manuscript form on a Smith - Corona typewriter that may have magic powers) with all of the characters he ever created on the hope that he can capture lightning in a bottle (or, in this case, a book) again.

Other well - known projects Irvine has been involved are A Night in Old Mexico, Beyond the Reach, The World Made Straight, The Woman in Black: Angel of Death, Stonewall, and Daniel Grigori in the film adaptation of the young adult novel Fallen.

An adaptation of R.J. Palacio's novel, director Stephen Chbosky, Steven Conrad, and Jack Thorne's screenplay does such a sympathetic job of communicating the story of a 10 - year - old boy, who was born with a genetic disorder that resulted in facial differences, that we aren't really considering the lives of the other characters on screen.

Other recipients include Jean - Paul Rappeneau for his project Belles familles; Louis Garrel, whose Les Deux amis will team the writer - director with Vincent Macaigne; and Christophe Honoré... Michael Caine will star in Paolo Sorrentino's In the Future, a drama about «friendship between two old people»... Abdellatif Kechiche is contemplating another helping of wrenching romantic anguish with a movie version of Héloïse et Abélard... Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini are currently shooting an adaptation of Eleanor Henderson's novel Ten Thousand Saints, with Ethan Hawke and Hailee Steinfeld, about a young man (played by Hugo star Asa Butterfield) who moves in with his estranged father in Manhattan in 1987 at the height of the East Village punk scene...

Steele portrays 10 - year - old Auggie, whose face is severely deformed because of a genetic disorder, with a raspy voice and self - deprecating humor; Nick Podehl channels Auggie's friends and others; and Kate Rudd reflects Auggie's teen sister in this compelling debut novel.

Along the way, several others join them, including Fineboy, a teenager who had joined the country's militants to protest foreign countries taking Nigerian oil; 16 - year - old Isoken, who is searching for her parents; and Oma, a woman escaping her wealthy husband, an oil industry employee who — as described in one of the novel's many great lines — treats her like expensive shoes, «to be polished and glossed but, at the end of the day, to be trodden on.»

This past week a client's old publisher came to us with the idea of giving away one of her earlier novels as a promotion to sell her other older titles.

So far, I've sold 50 copies, so it's sales are low compared to my other novels, novellas, and short stories (though it is outselling my poor children's story collection — it's so hard to find 10 - year - old readers with Kindles and the ability to buy from Amazon!).

«12 Fundamentals Of Writing «The Other» (And The Self)» by D. J. Older, author of the YA novel, Shadowshaper, among others.

The mix of stories usually includes some old and new Judge Dredd, creator interviews and other feature content, and a complete 64 - page graphic novel drawn from the 2000AD archives.

To overcome the resistance that many young and old blacks have of looking deeply into our past I have come up with a creation: A historical novel that uses the tools of mythology and science fiction to create a scenario that allows the reader to identify with a main character who will rise above all others; a character who will be a triumphant hero amidst the travesty of slavery.

Bruno seems too naïve for a German 9 year - old in 1943, especially about Jews and Hitler; the idea that Shmuel has the time and opportunity to sit alone by the fence daily seems very unlikely; that the fence is not regularly patrolled, and that it has a gap the size of a small boy, again unlikely; the other children in this novel also seem far too naïve.

Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead (Knopf) Shipstead's debut novel is a social satire set on a private New England island, as a father prepares to give away his (already pregnant) daughter, and other wedding guests and family members face lust, old rivalries and obligations that come with privilege.

Erin McCahan's second novel for teen readers, Love and Other Foreign Words, would've been an easy favorite for my 12 - year - old self.

Because as far as I'm aware, that's one of the other main reasons the top players on the sci - fi list are all either old hands, or indies: how often does a major publishing house anywhere in the world, take on a debut sic - fi novel?

I devoured classics, old favorites I saw through a new lens, the entire A Song of Ice and Fire saga, and countless other novels.

Other, older and less popular novels, are more on par between the two stores.

Other inspirations include classic comic strips like George Herriman's Krazy Kat and Bud Sagendorf's Popeye, old Warner Bros. cartoons, Lynda Barry's illustrated novels, contemporary animated series like Adventure Time and Steven Universe, and recent autobiographical zine comics.

Sometimes researchers develop new and novel methodologies to apply to old questions; other times they apply existing techniques to new problems.

Dr Pachauri ignored this, kept his job, toured the world while urging others not to, and published a novel, with steamy scenes of seduction of an older man by young women.

Reclaimed pine, a discarded basin, and a century - old stove introduce the memories of others: a remix of the familiar and the novel, the past and the future.

It is not, in my view, necessary in the case of the discovery of a new use for an old compound that the combination of the compound with the adjuvant be itself novel in any sense other than that it is required in order to give effect to this particular use of the compound.