20 Ergebnisse für: novelist's
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Dostoevsky and the Dynamics of Religious Experience - Malcolm V. Jones - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=L52TNlWprfcC
This addition to Dostoevsky studies deals with the religious dimension of the novelist's life and fiction. Malcolm Jones takes a fresh reading of Dostoevsky's representation of religion in his fictional world, that allows for both mystery and fear.
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Dostoevsky - Richard Freeborn - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=DxhhgrjR7cEC
Fyodor Dostoevsky is known as the author of some of the most important Russian novels of the 19th Century, such as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov.
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Elizabeth von Arnim: Beyond the German Garden - Isobel Maddison - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=mp0WDAAAQBAJ&pg=
In the first book-length treatment of Elizabeth von Arnim's fiction, Isobel Maddison examines her work in its historical and intellectual contexts, demonstrating that von Arnim's fine comic writing and complex and compelling narrative style reward close…
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Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 - Joseph Frank - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=QJj6qb6Rh3AC
"This volume, the third of five in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, begins with the writer's return to St. Petersburg, after a ten-year Siberian exile. Having met with sudden fame as the highly praised young author of Poor Folk in…
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Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins ... - John Kroger - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=NX_HQTdLHrAC&pg=
Convictions is a spellbinding story from the front lines of the fight against crime. Most Americans know little about the work of assistant United States attorneys, the federal prosecutors who possess sweeping authority to investigate and prosecute the…
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Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 - Joseph Frank - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=iAs4Lz5yog0C
This long-awaited volume, the fourth of five planned in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, does cover a truly miraculous period of his life-the six most remarkably productive years in the great novelist's entire career. It was in this…
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Conrad Richter: A Writer's Life - David R. Johnson - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=h6tXGKdTLUYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Conrad+Richter&source=bl&ots=s0bFBNun7Y&sig=VU1sxWc6pWPwnyKo
Conrad Richter: A Writer's Life is the story of an aspiring writer who failed and then, desperate for money, tried again and wrote himself out of penny-a-word pulp magazines and into a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Based upon unrestricted…
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South Asian Novelists in English: An A-to-Z Guide - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=qlpKOzsOc-IC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=Nirad+Chandra+Chaudhuri&source=bl&ots=843d5K7B2Z&sig=y2aBAo7JlJ
With the publication of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize winning novel, ^IMidnight's Children^R in 1981, followed by the unprecedented popularity of his subsequent works, the cinematic adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's ^IThe English Patient, ^R many other…
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Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo - Joseph Dewey - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=wCghvbBR3GAC&pg=PA26#v=onepage
In the closing decade of the twentieth century, Don DeLillo emerged from the privileged status of a writer's writer to become by any measure - productivity, influence, scope, gravitas - the dominant novelist of fin-de-millennium America. Beginning in 1982…
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Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream - Sue Prideaux - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=uJzfs0cq71gC&pg=PR3&lpg=PR3&dq=sue+prideaux+edvard+munch+behind+the+scream&source=bl&ots=BjLl26
Although almost everyone recognizes Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, hardly anyone knows much about the man. What kind of person could have created this universal image, one that so vividly expressed all the uncertainties of the twentieth…