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!

Her comeback novel, Quartet in Autumn ( 1977 ), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and her work found new audiences in the United States.

His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz ( 1959 ) and Barney's Version ( 1997 ); his 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 1990.

Her first novel, Les variations Goldberg ( 1981 ), was awarded the Prix Contrepoint and was shortlisted for the Prix Femina.

Huston's novel, Instruments des ténèbres, has been her most successful novel yet, being shortlisted for the Prix Femina, and the Governor General's Award.

In 2005, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, and she received the Prix Femina in 2006 for the novel Lignes de faille and which, as Fault Lines, has been published by Atlantic Books and is shortlisted for the 2008 Orange Prize.

England, England ( 1998 ) is a satirical science fiction novel by Julian Barnes which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

In 1974, Snow's novel In Their Wisdom was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Quartet in Autumn is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1977 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

His first novel, Sea Holly ( 2007 ) was shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.

Also in 2010, Gifted, a novel by New Zealand academic ( and former Frame biographer ) Patrick Evans, was published and subsequently shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers ' Prize.

Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Australian author Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize, the 1989 Miles Franklin Award, and was shortlisted for The Best of the Booker.

His first novel Crossover was shortlisted for the science fiction division of the 2001 Aurealis Awards, that recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror writers.

Her 2011 novel The Antagonist was shortlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

It was awarded the Words Worthy Book Award for best Canadian novel in 2003, was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award, and was named among the top Canadian novels of 2003 by The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, Maclean's and Quill & Quire.

His 1997 novel, Enduring Love, about the relationship between a science writer and a stalker, was popular with critics, although it was not shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

His next novel, Atonement ( 2001 ), received considerable acclaim ; Time magazine named it the best novel of 2002, and it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Saturday won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 2005, and his novel On Chesil Beach ( 2007 ) was shortlisted for the 2007 Booker Prize.

Mohsin Hamid published his first novel Moth Smoke ( 2000 ), which won the Betty Trask Award and was a finalist for the PEN / Hemingway Award ; he has since published his second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist ( 2007 ), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Kamila Shamsie, who was awarded in Pakistan the Prime Minister's Literary Award for her first novel, was shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys award for her third novel, Kartography ( 2002 ); she has since published her fourth novel, Broken Verses.

Undoubtedly even the old Southern stalwart Richmond has felt the new wind: William Styron mentions in his latest novel an avenue named for Bankhead McGruder, a Civil War general, now renamed, in typical California fashion, `` Buena Vista Terrace ''.

on the fatal battlefield of Poltava, to quote from the novel, `` the wreath he twined for himself slipped down upon his people ''.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

For a time, urging Breasted to give up his public relations work and take up writing instead, he hoped to persuade him to become his assistant in research for the labor novel ; ;

The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

The commission also approved a novel plan that would eliminate traffic hazards for pedestrians in the project.

The novel begins with the droogs sitting in their favorite hangout ( the Korova Milkbar ), drinking milk-drug cocktails, called " milk-plus ", to hype themselves for the night's mayhem.

He also adapted Kenneth Grahame's novel The Wind in the Willows for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall.

During these visits Shelley wrote the poem " Mont Blanc ", Byron wrote " The Prisoner of Chillon " and the dramatic poem Manfred, and Mary Shelley, who found the scenery overwhelming, conceived the idea for the novel Frankenstein in her villa on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of a thunderstorm.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.

At the beginning of the novel, Rieux's wife, who has been ill for a year, leaves for a sanatorium.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.