The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

However, the healthy inventory position of the textile industry lends support to the broadly expressed belief that improvement in that industry can be expected by the second half of 1961.

I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.

In the second half of the Sixteenth Century, Sinan, the great architect who is the Michelangelo of the East, designed the massive buttresses that now help support the dome.

My guess would be that interest rates will decline moderately into the spring of 1961 and during the second half of the year will turn up gradually to recover the ground lost during the downturn.

Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.

During the Seventies the projections show a more pronounced rise to an annual rate of 1,338,000 in the second half of that decade.

The average annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the Sixties is still considerably below the annual rate of 1,525,000 in the three-year period from April 1947 to March 1950.

At that time the second half of the Christian Youth Crusade against Communism will be staged.

The second half of the film `` Communism on the Map '' and the movie `` Operation Abolition '' also will be shown.

The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century.

The second half of her program was devoted to Russian composers of this century.

Susan Johnson, as the widow, spends the first half of the play running a bar and singing about the unlamented death of her late husband and the second half trying to acquire a new one.

Choreographed by Mr. Nagrin, the work filled the second half of a program that also offered the first New York showing of Miss Tamiris' `` Once Upon A Time '' as well as her `` Women's Song '' and Mr. Nagrin's `` Indeterminate Figure ''.

Wait for me, Laban, I'll be dressed in half a second ''!!

It was Australia's second consecutive innings defeat in a wet summer, and the hosts were in strong positions in the two drawn Tests, in which half the playing time was washed out.

With the Academies in Europe ( second half of 16th century ) the gap between fine and applied arts was definitely set.

As a theologian Alain de Lille shared in the mystic reaction of the second half of the 12th century against the scholastic philosophy.

In the second half of 1226, Andrew lead his armies to Halych on the request of his youngest son, Andrew.

In the second half of 1231, Andrew led his armies to Halych and managed to ensure his youngest son's rule in the principality.

In chapter four of the second Inspector Hanaud novel, The House of the Arrow ( 1924 ), Hanaud declares sanctimoniously to the heroine, " You are wise, Mademoiselle … For, after all, I am Hanaud.

Aphrodite figures as a secondary character in the Tale of Eros and Psyche, which first appeared as a digressive story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius ' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century AD.

Their second was Louisa May, who fictionalized her experience with the family in her novel Little Women in 1868.

Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848.

* In the Joe Haldeman novel The Forever War much of the action between William Mandella's first and second deployments occurs in an arcology.

* F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned ( 1922 ), contains a scene in which Gloria compares Anthony to a Russian wolfhound.

Along with other novel concepts, such process systems engineering ( PSE ), a " second paradigm " was defined.

Following the success of Jane Eyre, in 1848 Charlotte began work on the manuscript of her second novel, Shirley.

When the second novel, Dune Messiah, opens, Muad ’ Dib ’ s religion has sent his fanatical soldiers on an interstellar jihad, destroying the traditional structures of government and leaving billions dead.

Defoe's next novel was Captain Singleton ( 1720 ), a bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy.

Although the novel is farcical on the surface, the novel, especially in its second half, is more serious and philosophical about the theme of deception.

Philip Roth titled the second chapter of his novel " The Ghost Writer " Nathan Dedalus, after the novel's young protagonist Nathan Zuckerman.

* In Philip Roth's second Chapter of his novel Our Gang (' 71 ), Trick E. Dixon in a fictive speech tries to claim Helsingør as US-territory and tries to convince the audience to occupy the area

Although a letter from her publisher indicates that Emily was finalizing a second novel, the manuscript has never been found.

Shelley published a second Gothic novel in 1811, St. Irvyne ; or, The Rosicrucian, about an alchemist who seeks to impart the secret of immortality.

The influence of the gothic novel on the goth subculture can be seen in numerous examples of the subculture's poetry and music, though this influence sometimes came second hand, through the popular imagery of horror films and television.

Gernsback's second ( and final ) novel, written c. 1958, was not published until 1971.

It appears Michael Dobbs did not envisage writing the second and third books, as Urquhart dies at the end of the first novel.

Just months after wrapping the film, Bogart and Bacall were reunited for their second movie together, the film noir The Big Sleep, based on the novel by Raymond Chandler, again with script help from William Faulkner.

An example of this is Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poem largely written in loose heroic couplets but also allowing for frequent enjambment.

Aspects of this trip to France were incorporated into Sterne ’ s second novel, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, which was published at the beginning of 1768.

In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for Paladin of Souls.

The second movement of the novel begins when the characters are offered jobs in Silicon Valley working on a project for Michael, who has by then left Redmond.

The second novel of this series, Therese and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel ( Thérèse et Pierrette à l ' école des Saints-Anges, 1980 ), was one of the novels chosen for inclusion in the French version of Canada Reads, Le combat des livres, broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2005, where it was championed by union activist Monique Simard.