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novel and was
The novel was not only the presenter of the new, secular, rationalistic, private world of the middle class.
Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.
Krim was able to get an advance for a novel, and time and opportunity to write at Yaddo, but it was no good.
He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.
His lordship was concerned in the management of Drury Lane but, if there were no opportunities there, would he read and criticize her novel??
Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.
A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.
Mr. Remarque's conception of this novel was sound and perhaps even noble.
the book was a fine historical novel about Edward 3,, and I did a week of research to get the details just right: the fifteenth-century armor, furnishings, clothes.
As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.
Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.
According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu d ' esprit written in just three weeks.
In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).
He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.
According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.
The scenes at the end of the novel, when Oran's gates are reopened, recall the jubilant scenes in Paris when the city was liberated in 1944.
Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.
The novel was not published until shortly after Christie's death in 1976, some thirty-six years after it was originally written.
This first film was based on the 1957 novel 4: 50 from Paddington ( U. S. title, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!

novel and serialised
* 1914 – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialised in The Egoist.
He achieved more recognition with his Snob Papers ( serialised 1846 / 7, published in book form in 1848 ), but the work that really established his fame was the novel Vanity Fair, which first appeared in serialised instalments beginning in January 1847.
In The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a novel serialised in Fraser's in 1844, Thackeray explored the situation of an outsider trying to achieve status in high society, a theme which he developed more successfully in Vanity Fair with the character of Becky Sharp, the artist's daughter who rises nearly to the heights by manipulating the other characters.
The novel was originally serialised in Galaxy Science Fiction ( September, October, November 1951 ).
Podkayne of Mars is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in Worlds of If ( November 1962, January, March 1963 ), and published in hardcover in 1963.
The novel, somewhat abridged, was originally serialised in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ( May, June, July 1954 ) as " Star Lummox " and then published in hardcover as part of Scribner's series of Heinlein juveniles.
I Will Fear No Evil is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in Galaxy ( July, August / September, October / November, December 1970 ) and published in hardcover in 1970.
Have Space Suit — Will Travel is a science fiction novel for young readers by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ( August, September, October 1958 ) and published by Scribner's in hardcover in 1958 as the last of the Heinlein juveniles.
The Stars, Like Dust was originally serialised under the title Tyrann in Galaxy Science Fiction from January to March 1951, and was published as a novel by Doubleday later that year.
The Currents of Space was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction from October to December 1952 before being published by Doubleday as a novel the same year.
When the novel was serialised in Tinsley's Magazine between September 1872 and July 1873, Hardy chose to leave one of the main protagonists, Henry Knight, literally hanging off a cliff staring into the stony eyes of a trilobite embedded in the rock.
From Russia, with Love was serialised in the Daily Express newspaper commencing on 1 April 1957 ; it was the first Bond novel the paper had adapted in such a way.
In the second period, as noted above, he abandoned the serialised novel and from 1890 to about 1897, he wrote short stories and plays.
Finally, in his third and last period he returned to the long, serialised novel.
Beginning in 1989 Campbell illustrated Alan Moore's ambitious Jack the Ripper graphic novel From Hell, serialised initially in Steve Bissette's horror anthology Taboo.
His first novel Tarr was also published in book-form in 1918, having been serialised in The Egoist during 1916 – 17.
A novel by Cherkaoui, serialised in 1952, formed the basis of The Earth ( 1968 ), noted particularly for its image of the peasant farmer – " eternal ‘ damned of the earth ’" – which broke with " the ridiculous image the cinema had ( hitherto ) given him " ( Khaled Osman ).
In the UK, the novel was serialised as an abridged version in the weekly Women's Pictorial magazine in six instalments from February 16 ( Volume 29, Number 736 ) to March 23, 1935 ( Volume 29, Number 741 ) under the title Mystery in the Air.
At the end of the serialisation an advert appeared in the newspaper, which announced " This is a brilliant mystery novel, which has had the unique distinction for a first novel of being serialised in The Times Weekly Edition.
In the US the novel was serialised in Ladies ' Home Journal in two abridged installments from July ( Volume XCIII, Number 7 ) to August 1976 ( Volume XCIII, Number 8 ) with an illustration by Fred Otnes.
After managers declined the manuscript, Reade adapted the story, weaving it into a novel which was serialised in The London Journal and published in three volumes the same year.
In the U. S., the novel was serialised in four parts in Flynn's Detective Weekly from June 19 ( Volume 16, Number 2 ) to July 10, 1926 ( Volume 16, Number 5 ).
The novel was serialised in the Star Weekly Novel, a Toronto newspaper supplement, in two abridged instalments from 9-16 March 1963 under the title The Mirror Crack'd with each issue containing a cover illustration by Gerry Sevier.

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