The tragic tale of the Mexican colony on Clipperton Island has been the subject of several novels, including Ivo Mansmann's Clipperton, Schicksale auf einer vergessenen Insel (" Clipperton, Destinies on a Forgotten Island "); ISBN 3-354-00709-5 ( in German, no English translation available ) and Colombian writer Laura Restrepo's La Isla de la Pasión in the Spanish language.

Aside from Eugene Onegin, Hofstadter has translated many other poems ( always respecting their formal constraints ), and two other novels ( in prose ): La Chamade ( That Mad Ache ) by French writer Françoise Sagan, and La Scoperta dell ' Alba ( The Discovery of Dawn ) by Walter Veltroni, the then head of the Partito Democratico in Italy.

His first article, La Censure en Angleterre, was an attempt to account for the ' extraordinary and illogical ' moral censorship of plays and novels then practised in Britain.

This theme is particularly evidenced in the novels " La Peur de vivre " and " Les Roquevillard.

The Marañón river serves also as a frame for one of the most important novels of the Peruvian writer Ciro Alegría: La serpiente de oro ( 1935 ).

He has been openly gay throughout his public life, and he has written many novels ( The Duchess and the Commoner, La nuit des princes charmants, Le Coeur découvert, Le Coeur éclaté ) and plays ( Hosanna, La duchesse de Langeais, Fragments de mensonges inutiles ) centred on gay characters.

He later published the Plateau Mont-Royal Chronicles, a cycle of six novels including The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant ( La grosse femme d ' à côté est enceinte, 1978 ) and The Duchess and the Commoner ( La duchesse et le roturier, 1982 ).

* The first half of Miguel de Cervantes's landmark novel Don Quixote (" El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha " or " The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha ") — one of the earliest novels in the western literary tradition, is published and becomes Cervantes's first literary success.

His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled, La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon.

La Peau de Chagrin, among his earliest novels, is a pessimistic tale of confusion and destruction.

Żuławski has also written several novels, for example: Il était Un Verger, Lity Bór ( a. k. a. La Forêt Forteresse ), W Oczach Tygrysa, and Ogród Miłości.

He also wrote the novels Il était Un Verger, Lity Bór ( a. k. a. La Forêt Forteresse ), W Oczach Tygrysa, and Ogród Miłości.

Benni has written many successful novels and anthologies, among which are Bar Sport, Elianto, Terra !, La compagnia dei celestini, Baol, Comici spaventati guerrieri, Saltatempo, Margherita Dolcevita and Il bar sotto il mare.

* La Comédie humaine, a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays by Honoré de Balzac, set during the Restoration and the July Monarchy

The later Durtal novels, En route ( 1895 ), La cathédrale ( 1898 ) and L ' oblat ( 1903 ), explore Durtal / Huysmans ' conversion to Roman Catholicism.

One of her novels, La Bicyclette bleue (" The Blue Bicycle "), published in 1981, was France's biggest bestseller.

He also published a number of essays and two important but unfinished novels, La Vie de Marianne and Le Paysan parvenu.

In the three years from 1713 to 1715 he produced three novels -- Effets surprenants de la sympathie ; La Voiture embourbée, and a book which had three titles -- Pharsamon, Les Folies romanesques, and Le Don Quichotte moderne.

* Alexandre Dumas, père's novels: La Reine Margot ( 1845 ), La Dame de Monsoreau ( 1846 ) and Les quarante-cinq ( 1847 ).

Another important example of the development of vampire fiction can be found in three seminal novels by Paul Féval: Le Chevalier Ténèbre ( 1860 ), La Vampire ( 1865 ) and La Ville Vampire ( 1874 ).

She has appeared as a character in several novels, such as the biographical novels The Devil's Mistress by novelist and occultist J. W. Brodie-Innes, Isobel by Jane Parkhurst, the fantasy novel Night Plague by Graham Masterton, and Noches Paganas: Cuentos Narrados junto al Fuego del Sabbath by Luis G. Abbadie ;

On September 21, 2010, film director Guillermo del Toro announced that he would like to direct new adaptations of the Stephen King novels It and Pet Sematary, but stated that he is very busy and unlikely to be able to make them soon.

Gorriti wrote a number of novels and short stories, including " La hija del mazorquero " and " El lucero de manantial.

However, she did publish a total of five novels: the 1952 publication of La Isla y los demonios, which is essentially the prequel to Nada ; her 1955 La mujer nueva, motivated by her re-discovery of her Catholic faith and recipient of the Premio Menorca ; her 1963 La insolación, the initial installment of the trilogy Tres pasos fuera del tiempo ; and finally her posthumous Al volver la esquina, published in May 2004 and considered by many to be her most accomplished psychological novel.

Marías's novels Corazón tan blanco ( 1992 ) and Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí ( 1994 ), and his ever-expanding experiment with real fiction ( begun with 1989's Todas las almas and continued through weekly newspaper columns, 1998's Negra espalda del tiempo, and extended in his 21st century trilogy, Tu rostro mañana ), placed him on numerous critics ´ Nobel Prize shortlists.

A Guarneri violin is a center object in one of Andrea Camilleri's main Montalbano novels " La Voce del violino " ( The voice of the violin ).

He also wrote many novels and stories such as Los Aguinaldos del Infante ( Christmas Stories for Children ) and Cuentos Sin Ton Ni Son.

He travelled extensively to gather material that would later become part of his novels and essays, and was a professor at the Universidad Hispanoamericana of Costa Rica and at Escuela Técnica del Uruguay, where he taught art and mathematics.

On 21st September 2010, del Toro announced that he wanted to direct new adaptations of the Stephen King novels It and Pet Sematary, but stated that he is very busy and unlikely to be able to make the films any time soon.

He was not a great natural force ; his early plays and poems are influenced by Leandro Moratín or by Juan Meléndez Valdés ; his Espíritu del siglo ( 1835 ) is a summary of all the commonplaces concerning the philosophy of history ; his Doña Isabel de Solís ( 1837 – 1846 ) is an imitation of Walter Scott's historical novels.

Shortly afterwards he joined the household of the Marquis de los Vélez, Viceroy of Valencia, and published in quick succession three clever picaresque novels: La Niña de los embustes, Teresa de Manzanares ( 1634 ), Las Aventuras del Bachiller Trapaza ( 1637 ), and a continuation entitled La garduña de Sevilla y anzuelo de las bolsas ( 1642 ).

Caidos del Cielo ( La pistola de mi hermano ) () is the first of his novels to be published in English, and he directed a film based on this book in 1997.

For the Spanish market he wrote the mini-series Iberia Inc and Triada Vértice, as well as the 12-issue historical graphic novels, still in process, 12 del Doce.

He wrote novels, stories, reportages ( for the " Corriere della Sera " and " Gazzetta del Popolo ").

Category: 1929 novels

Category: 1929 novels

In his later years he published two lengthy novels on historical subjects, Peter the First ( 1929 – 45 ) and The Road to Calvary ( 1922-41 ).

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (; born October 21, 1929 ) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction.

Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).

Category: 1929 novels

He wrote only four novels, the most famous of which is The Innocent Voyage ( 1929 ), better known now as A High Wind in Jamaica, as Hughes himself would rename it shortly after its initial publication.

Category: 1929 novels

He published 26 novels, notably The Good Companions ( 1929 ), as well as numerous dramas such as An Inspector Calls ( 1945 ).

Foster's Tarzan comic strip, adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs ' novels, began January 7, 1929, continuing until Rex Maxon took over the Tarzan daily on June 10, 1929.

" Time magazine included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on a list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.

From 1929 to 1930 Dashiell was romantically involved with Nell Martin, an author of short stories and several novels.

Category: 1929 novels

The play was also used in one of the earliest sound films ; the 1929 John G. Adolfi movie The Show of Shows ; a revue-style production featuring extracts from numerous plays, musicals and novels.

Category: 1929 novels

Category: 1929 novels

His best-regarded novels are Living ( 1929 ), Loving ( 1945 ) and Party Going ( 1939 ) ( now often published together ).

They had three children, including Harwood Steele, who would fictionalize episodes from his father's life in novels such as Spirit-of-Iron ( 1929 ).

He was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance and wrote four novels: Home to Harlem ( 1928 ), a best-seller which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature, Banjo ( 1929 ), Banana Bottom ( 1933 ) and in 1941 the manuscript of a novel that has not yet been published called Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem.

Sheri Stewart Tepper ( born July 16, 1929 ) is an American author of science fiction, horror and mystery novels ; she is particularly known as a feminist science fiction writer, often with an ecofeminist slant.

Category: 1929 novels

He first appeared as a supporting character in The Crime at Black Dudley ( 1929 ), an adventure story involving a ring of criminals, and would go on to feature in another 17 novels and over 20 short stories.

More conventional exponents of the big house novel include Elizabeth Bowen ( 1899 – 1973 ), whose novels and short stories include Encounters ( 1923 ), The Last September ( 1929 ), and The Death of the Heart ( 1938 ) and Molly Keane ( 1904 – 1996 ) ( writing as M. J. Farrell ), author of Young Entry ( 1928 ), Conversation Piece ( 1932 ), Devoted Ladies ( 1934 ), Full House ( 1935 ), and The Loving Without Tears ( 1951 ) among others.

Fallada married Suse Issel in 1929 and maintained a string of respectable jobs in journalism, working for newspapers and eventually for the publisher of his novels, Rowohlt.