The quest of the historical Homer is likely never to have further success ; ;

By the Victorian era Gothic had ceased to be the dominant genre and was dismissed by most critics ( in fact the form's popularity as an established genre had already begun to erode with the success of the historical romance popularised by Sir Walter Scott ).

Edward Gibbon, in his classic The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, discusses the topic in considerable detail in his famous Chapter Fifteen, summarizing the historical causes of the early success of Christianity as follows: "( 1 ) The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians, derived, it is true, from the Jewish religion, but purified from the narrow and unsocial spirit which, instead of inviting, had deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses.

In 1804, at the height of his success, he ran into legal trouble by publishing prints related to a banned historical novel.

However, Oxfordians ( as adherents of the theory are usually called ) reject the historical record, often proposing the conspiracy theory that the record was falsified to protect the identity of the real author, and invoking the dearth of evidence for any conspiracy as evidence of its success.

Because no documentary material existed of the storming of the palace, Eistenstein's re-creation of the event has become the source material for historians and filmmakers, giving it further legitimacy as the accepted historical record, which illustrates its success as a propaganda film.

These two outcomes represent the historical success of Zionism, unmatched by any other Jewish political movement in the past 2, 000 years.

Borodin returned to Prince Igor in 1874, inspired by the success of his comrades Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky in the staging of their historical operas, The Maid of Pskov ( 1873 ) and Boris Godunov ( 1874 ).

Indeed, analysis of historical data found that the length of a female ’ s post-reproductive lifespan was reflected in the reproductive success of her offspring and the survival of her grandchildren.

The success of the settlement is evident in its historical records.

Laughton's early success in The Private Life of Henry VIII established him as one of the leading interpreters of the costume and historical drama parts for which he is best remembered ( Nero, Henry VIII, Mr. Barrett, Inspector Javert, Captain Bligh, Rembrandt, Quasimodo and others ); he was also type-cast for arrogant, unscrupulous characters.

Another category Anouilh specifies are his pièces costumées (" costume plays ") which include The Lark, La Foire d ' Empoigne ( Catch as Catch Can ), and Becket, an international success, depicting the historical martyr Thomas à Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury who sought to defend the church against the monarch ( and his friend ), Henry II of England, who had appointed him to his see.

Low budget films such as the comedy / drama Muriel's Wedding, starring Toni Collette, the gently satirical suburban comedy The Castle directed by Rob Sitch ( which cast Eric Bana in his first prominent film role ), and Baz Luhrmann's flamboyant Strictly Ballroom each attained commercial and critical success, and explored quirky characters inhabiting contemporary Australian suburbia-marking something of a departure from the Outback and historical sagas which obtained success in the 1970s and 1980s.

Authorship of the poem is attributed to Ibycus on textual and historical grounds but its quality as verse is open to debate: " insipid ", " inept and slovenly " or, more gently, " not an unqualified success " and optimally " the work of a poet realizing a new vision, with a great command of epic material which he could manipulate for encomiastic effect.

Lubitsch alternated between escapist comedies and large-scale historical dramas, enjoying great international success with both.

Such stories subsequently remained an oddity, with the current trend for historical whodunnits only really beginning in the late 1970s with the success of Ellis Peters and her Brother Cadfael novels, set in medieval Shrewsbury.

Much of the popularity of these sorts of stories, which are not considered historical whodunnits by everyone in the genre, is driven by the runaway success of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and its prequel, Angels and Demons, and various copycat titles.

These partnerships proved vital to the success of reopening the Log House not only as an historical building within the community, but also as a meeting facility that is available for community use.

Three months later, he published a substantial historical novel, Cinq-Mars, based on the life of Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars ; with the success of these two volumes, Vigny seemed to be the rising star of the burgeoning Romantic movement, though this role would soon be usurped by one of Vigny's best friends, Victor Hugo.

Hopkins also had great success during the remainder of the decade with the romantic screwball comedy The Richest Girl in the World ( 1934 ), the historical drama Becky Sharp ( 1935 ), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, Barbary Coast ( 1935 ), These Three ( 1936 ) ( the first of four films with director William Wyler ) and The Old Maid ( 1939 ).

Ebers also turned his attention to other fields of historical fiction — especially the 16th century ( Die Frau Bürgermeisterin, 1882 ; Die Gred, 1887 )— without, however, attaining the success of his Egyptian novels.

The Cuban Revolutionary Party's ' Bases and Statutes ' aimed at: 1 ) Winning absolute independence for Cuba and aiding that of Puerto Rico ; 2 ) ordering a ' generous and brief war ' that would ensure peace and happiness for all Cuba's inhabitants ; 3 ) organizing this war so that it should be ' republican in spirit and methods ', and lead to a society fulfilling ' in the historical life of the continent '; 4 ) ensuring that no ' authoritarian spirit and bureaucratic make-up of the colony ' would exist in the new Cuba ; 5 ) preventing any one particular group from having more power than other groups ; 6 ) creating a harmonious fatherland with economic prosperity ensured by allowing outlets for the economic activities of all its inhabitants ; 7 ) maintaining friendly relations with the U. S .; and, 8 ) bringing the above intentions through a set of concrete aims: to unite all Cubans living abroad, to bring together all factions inside and outside of Cuba, to prepare inside Cuba the knowledge and spirit of the revolution, to collect funds, to establish relations with friendly peoples to accelerate the success of the war, and finally, to organize the Cuban Revolutionary Party according to the secret rules agreed upon by the founding organizations.

It was in some ways the herald of a new school of German historical thought, for it idealized power and success, a conceptual framework Droysen had learned from the teaching of Hegel.

In view of the success of her novels, particularly Jane Eyre, Charlotte was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes.

Scottish crime fiction has been a major area of growth, particularly the success of Edinburgh's Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus novels.

After the war Wyndham returned to writing, inspired by the success of his brother who had had four novels published.

They collaborated on a number of unpublished novels ( often imitating Ronald Firbank ), and had little success.

Despite the commercial success of Fleming's fantastical anti-Communist novels, other former spies, such as John le Carré and Len Deighton, created anti-heroic men protagonists who used the immoral tactics.

And the success of those graphic novels made our ideas more acceptable.

* 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.

One of the factors that contributed to the success of the Dragonlance setting when it was published in 1984 was a series of concurrent novels by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis.

Pym's literary career is noteworthy for the long hiatus between 1963 and 1977 when, despite early success and continuing popularity, she was unable to find a publisher for her richly comic novels.

Following the success of his first novels, Deighton became The Observers cookery writer and produced illustrated cookbooks.

To exploit the success of Deighton's first four " Unnamed Hero " novels, he wrote Len Deighton's London Dossier ( 1967 ), a guide book to Swinging Sixties London with a " secret agent " theme – contributions from other writers are described as " surveillance reports.

Its success led to many imitators and castaway novels became quite popular in Europe in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

She then wrote psychological novels, including Aloma which won the Crexells Prize, but even with the success this novel enjoyed, Rodoreda decided to remake and republish it some years later since she was not fully satisfied with this period of her life and her works at that time.

Garner sent his debut novel to the publishing company Collins, where it was picked up by the company's head, Sir William Collins, who was on the look out for new fantasy novels following on from the recent commercial and critical success of J. R. R.

" Following its release in 1960, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen proved to be a " resounding success ... both critically and commercially ", later being described as " a tour de force of the imagination, a novel that showed almost every writer who came afterwards what it was possible to achieve in novels ostensibly published for children.

He first achieved literary success through his novels, notably Siegfried et le Limousin ( 1922 ) and Eglantine ( 1927 ).

The first volume achieved moderate success, ranking 17 in the top one hundred graphic novels, with pre-order sales of 3227 for that period.

Failing to make a commercial success on the stage, however, and finding that the stresses of theatrical work were difficult to sustain, he returned to the writing of long, serialised novels, which again became the mainstay of his income.

Years after the success of his Cold War spy novels, novelist and Lincoln graduate John le Carré, himself a one-time spy, revealed that fictional spymaster George Smiley was partly modelled on former Lincoln rector Vivian H. H. Green.

After this, he virtually abandoned writing novels ( though his semi-autobiographical L ' Affaire Clemenceau ( 1867 ) achieved some solid success ).

Space Ship Earthling number Seven ultimately succeeds, and the consequences of their success form the basis of the plot for the novels which follow.

After returning to Britain, Moore published new poetry but in spite of good reviews and good sales, he was growing disillusioned with writing poetry and he began to consider writing novels, a genre made increasingly popular by the success of Walter Scott.

His inclination, however, was to writing novels, and the success of his romance L ' Ariane in 1632 led to his formal admission to a circle of writers that met at the house of Valentin Conrart.