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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 last
Ortega's hope that modern psychology might yet bring forth a last flowering of the novel has only been partially fulfilled.
Among the most noted recent works, there is the writer, the swallows of Kabul and the attack of Yasmina Khadra, the oath of barbarians of Boualem Sansal, memory of the flesh of Ahlam Mosteghanemi and the last novel by Assia Djebar nowhere in my father's House.
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.
The last words of the poem " On Wenlock Edge " are used by Audrey R. Langer for the title of the 1989 novel Ashes Under Uricon.
The 2009 novel Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy takes its title from Housman's poem " Reveille ", and a line from Housman's poem XVI " How Clear, How Lovely Bright ", was used for the title of the last Inspector Morse book The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter.
Charlotte's third published novel, the last to be published during her lifetime, was Villette, which came out in 1853.
The fragment of a new novel she had been working on in her last years has been twice completed by recent authors, the more famous version being Emma Brown: A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Brontë by Clare Boylan in 2003.
It was originally serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1976, and was the last Dune novel to be serialized before book publication.
Chapterhouse: Dune is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, last in his series of six Dune novels.
The last English translation of the novel in the 20th century was by Burton Raffel, published in 1996.
In the novel, his last contact with Earth is the radio message " The thing's hollow — it goes on forever — and — oh my God — it's full of stars!
In 1847, Emily published her novel, Wuthering Heights, as two volumes of a three-volume set ( the last volume being Agnes Grey by her sister Anne ).
During his career he wrote poetry, prose, and stage plays ; his last novel was Kenelm Chillingly, which was in course of publication in Blackwood ’ s Magazine at the time of his death in 1873.
The last film Coppola directed in the 90s, The Rainmaker was based on the 1995 novel of the same name by John Grisham.
Galaxy reviewer Groff Conklin placed the novel " among the great works of the imagination written in English in the last decade or more.
Coming Up for Air, his last novel before World War II is the most ' English ' of his novels ; alarums of war mingle with images of idyllic Thames-side Edwardian childhood of protagonist George Bowling.
In the last regular Eighth Doctor novel, The Gallifrey Chronicles by Lance Parkin, it is revealed that while Gallifrey was destroyed, the Time Lords were not erased from history.
* The Great Auk is the subject of a novel, The Last Great Auk by Allen Eckert, which tells of the events leading to the extinction of the Great Auk as seen from the perspective of the last one alive.
Lewis's tale appalled some contemporary readers ; however his portrayal of depraved monks, sadistic inquisitors and spectral nuns, and his scurrilous view of the Catholic Church was an important development in the genre and influenced established terror-writer Anne Radcliffe in her last novel The Italian ( 1797 ).
His most explicitly Gothic work is his last novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( 1870 ).
Her last novel was Daniel Deronda, published in 1876, whereafter she and Lewes moved to Witley, Surrey ; but by this time Lewes's health was failing and he died two years later on 30 November 1878.
While a gay poet Grzegorz Musiał could publish officially, Jerzy Andrzejewski's last novel dealing with the subject of homosexuality was censored.
On April 1, 1857, Melville published his last full-length novel, The Confidence-Man.
He wrote his last novel, The Vision of Gombold Proval ( posthumously published as Head to Toe ), in 1959, and had his writing accepted soon afterward.

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