Novelist Sentence Examples

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  • As a novelist, meanwhile, he had taken a very high place.

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  • Other eminent residents were Turner, who occupied Sandycombe Lodge, and painted many of his famous works here, Henry Fielding the novelist, and Tennyson.

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  • It is as a novelist that Goethe has suffered most by the lapse of time.

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  • His daughter, Florence Marryat, herself a novelist, published his Life and Letters in 1872.

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  • He marks the period of transition to the younger generation of writers, in the forefront of whom stands the poet and novelist Hachar, who revolutionized the conception of Czech patriotism and is famous for his historical glosses.

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  • In Kaczkowski the Poles found a novelist who treated many periods of their history with great success.

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  • In Henryk Sienkiewicz, the historical novelist, Poland has a modern writer of European reputation.

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  • To these we may add the gifted but unfortunate Sigismund Czak6, Lewis Dobsa, Joseph Szigeti, Ignatius Nagy, Joseph Szenvey (a translator from Schiller), Joseph Gaal, Charles Hugo, Lawrence Toth (the Magyarizer of the School for Scandal), Emeric Vahot, Alois Degre (equally famous as a novelist), Stephen Toldy and Lewis Doczi, author of the popular prize drama Csok (The Kiss).

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  • William Hamilton Maxwell (1792-1850), the Irish novelist, wrote, in addition to several novels, a Life of the Duke of Wellington (1839-1841 and again 1883), and a History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798 (1845 and 1891).

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  • He is not a dramatist - his work as such is insignificant - nor a novelist, for, though his two chief works except the Confessions are called novels, Emile is one only in name, and La Nouvelle Helotise is as a story diffuse, prosy and awkward to a degree.

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  • Of a less severe type were Cherbuliez, the novelist; TSpffer, who spread a taste for pedestrianism among Swiss youth; Duchosal, the poet; Marc Monnier, the litterateur; not to mention the names of any persons still living, or of politicians of any date.

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  • The freshness of the new field which was opened up to the imagination - so full of vivid lights and shadows, light-hearted fun, grinding hardship, stirring adventure, heroic action, warm friendships, bitter hatreds - was in exhilarating contrast to the world of the historical romancer and the fashionable novelist, to which the mind of the general reader was at that date given over.

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  • The best novelist of the time was Emilie Flygare-Carlen (1807-1892).

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  • His wife, Helene Nyblom, was well known as a novelist.

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  • She also showed great ability as a novelist, among the best of her books being a series of sketches of country life (1884-1887).

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  • One of his daughters, Mary St Leger Kingsley (Mrs Harrison), has become well known as a novelist under the pseudonym of "Lucas Malet."

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  • His first portrait to attract attention, from its fine quality, was that of George Macdonald, the poet and novelist, now the property of the university of Aberdeen.

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  • A visit to the Rhine, where new interests and the attractions of Maximiliane von Laroche, a daughter of Wieland's friend, the novelist Sophie von Laroche, brought partial healing; his intense preoccupation with literary work on his return to Frankfort did the rest.

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  • He was the father of Alfred Landon Rives (1830-1903), an engineer of some prominence, whose daughter, Amelie Rives (1863-), became well known as a novelist, her best known book being The Quick or the Dead?

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  • While in India he had married (1772) Jane Thackeray, a great-aunt of the novelist.

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  • The novelist Karl Postl (1793-1864), who wrote under the pseudonym of Charles Sealsfield, was born at Poppitz, 22 m.

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  • Alexandria is connected with Bonhill, on the opposite bank of the river, by a bridge which replaced in 1898 one bought three years earlier by the county council from the Smollett family, who have been closely associated with the district since the time of Sir James Smollett, the novelist's grandfather.

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  • The first Swedish novelist was Jakob Henrik Mork (1714-1763).

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  • Drama has rarely flourished in Sweden, but several of the poets mentioned above have written important plays, and, somewhat earlier, the socialistic problempieces of Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler, duchess of Cajanello (1849-1893), possessed considerable dramatic talent, working under a direct impulse from Ibsen; but her greatest gift was as a novelist.

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  • Richardson the novelist, in Sir Charles Grandison, wishes there could be a Protestant nunnery in every county, " with a truly worthy divine, at the appointment of the bishop of the diocese, to direct and animate the devotion of such a society "; in 1829 the poet Southey, in his Colloquies (cxiii.), trusts that " thirty years hence this reproach also may be effaced, and England may have its Beguines and its sisters of mercy.

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  • It is difficult to think of a great novella which has not been written by a great novelist.

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  • The movie was based on the life of novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and also starred Mary Steenbergen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, and Alfre Woodard.

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  • He became the most discussed, the most read, the most bought novelist in France - the sale of L'Assommoir being even exceeded by that of Nana (1880) and La Dtbdcle (1892).

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  • But in what follows the identification of this Simon with the Simon of Acts has led the novelist to give play to his fancy.

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  • Too great influence was accorded to them, and the result was that for a long time scarcely a single Rumanian novelist or historian can be mentioned.

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  • Lady Caroline Lamb acquired some fame as a novelist by her romance of Glenarvon, which was published anonymously in 1816 and was afterwards (1865) re-issued under the title of The Fatal Passion.

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  • It is only as a novelist that he deserves consideration.

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  • No Icelandic novelist has as yet equalled Jon Thoroddsen (1819-1868).

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  • The Servians have as yet no great novelist, but they have several very successful writers of short stories.

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  • Remarkable sketches of Galician life are to be found in the works of the German novelist Sacher-Masoch (1835-1895).

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  • The elegant and distinguished young novelist became a favourite at court; his pieces were performed at Compiegne before they were given to the public, and on one occasion the empress Eugenie deigned to play the part of Mme de Pons in Les Portraits de la Marquise.

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  • The successful novelist, who is living comfortably with his fussy butler, decided to contemplate marriage.

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  • Novelist Sean is up against a serious case of writer's block and a shock announcement from his " perfect " new girlfriend.

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  • Tho imperfect, The Perfect Fool would be a promising debut from any nascent novelist.

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  • And when a Poet or a Novelist becomes a demagogue the same applies to him.

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  • I had two particularly inspirational teachers one for English, who was also a novelist, and one for the history of art.

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  • She is a historian and archeologist by profession, and is now a bestselling novelist.

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  • In addition, once every couple of months, I will interview a published novelist to share his or her secrets for success.

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  • One ' unknown " he included was Angela Carter who was later to become a novelist of world stature.

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  • Award winning novelist Zadie Smith, who went to Hampstead School, described comprehensive schools as a microcosm of the world.

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  • He was an English naval officer turned novelist who settled in Langham Norfolk in 1848.

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  • That my nephew was Mark Bradshaw, best-selling novelist?

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  • Perhaps it is asking too much of a first-time novelist to do both.

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  • Marina Warner is a cultural historian and prize-winning novelist whose work includes Indigo and From the Beast to the Blond.

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  • Thursday 1st December Award-winning novelist, Anthony Horowitz, will give two readings to LS and Removes pupils.

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  • You will also have the chance to meet best selling novelist Adele Parks, who will be joining us on the day.

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  • Atari and Stormfront Studios enlisted the help of cult novelist R.A. Salvatore to give depth to this franchise.

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  • March will see the final Doctor Who novella by horror novelist Simon Clark.

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  • Is Britain's best crime novelist about to chuck ' proper books ' to become a comic book writer?

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  • The edition also contains a preface by the novelist Michèle Roberts.

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  • Best selling novelist Thomas Harris has written the screenplay, based on his upcoming novel, Behind The Mask.

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  • Scott's Waverley begins his career as Europe's most celebrated novelist [largely unread today] .

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  • Niccolini blasted tyranny in his tragedies, the novelist Guerrazzi re-evoked the memories of the last struggle for Florentine freedom in LAssedio di Firenze, and Verdis operas bristled with political double entendres which escaped the censor but were understood and applauded by the audience.

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  • George Gissing, the novelist, was at one time their tutor; and in 1905 Mr Harrison wrote a preface to Gissing's Veranilda (see also Mr Austin Harrison's article on Gissing in the Nineteenth Century, September 1906).

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  • Ewald's son Carl (1856-1908) achieved a great name as a novelist, but did his most characteristic work in a series of books for children, in which he used the fairy tale, in the manner of Hans Andersen, as a vehicle for satire and a theory of morals.

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  • In the United States Judson married Emily Chubbuck (1817-1854), well-known as a poet and novelist under the name of "Fanny Forrester," who was one of the earliest advocates in America of the higher education of women.

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  • He was also a brilliant novelist and critic, and many consider him the greatest satirist of this century.

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  • Quot there 's been of new jersey 's money for example novelist stephen king.

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  • The novelist's use of both similes and metaphors in her writing brought her scenes to life.

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  • The novelist must also give them names, come up with a physical description for each person, and create a history for them.

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  • This strategy may be helpful for a first-time novelist and someone with more experience may want to use a shorter outline and move into the writing stage earlier on.

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  • Gemini characteristics can range from a Peter Pan complex, a talented opera singer, a stand-up comedian, to a published novelist.

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  • Throughout the 90s, Lloyd Webber toyed off and on with show ideas with the help of novelist Frederick Forsyth.

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  • The Heralds of Valdemar serve in a feudal-level fictitious kingdom created by fantasy novelist Mercedes Lackey.

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  • I mean, I'm a successful novelist, but my audience as a novelist will never approach the size of the audience we had for FlashForward - and it was a failed T.V. series in the sense that it was cancelled for low ratings.

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  • Stephen King is a successful novelist that has written hundreds of short stories, novels, and novellas.

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  • Imagine you're a novelist, and you've just written and published your first book.

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  • It remains to trace the influence, direct or indirect, of the poet on the novelist.

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  • Stavanger is the birthplace of Kjelland the novelist (1849).

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  • The popular novelist and historian, Heinrich Zschokke (1771-1848), spent most of his life here, and a bronze statue has been erected to his memory.

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  • But by far the most prolific and talented novelist that Hungary can boast of is Maurus Jokai (q.v.), whose power of imagination and brilliancy of style, no less than his true representations of Hungarian life and character, have earned for him a European reputation.

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  • Eger was the birthplace of the novelist and playwright Braun von Braunthal (1802-1866).

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  • The vigour of his thought won admiration from Henry James (father of the novelist) and from Emerson, through whom he became known to Carlyle and Froude; and his speculation further attracted Tennyson, the Oliphants and Edward Maitland.

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  • On the bank of the Potomac is a brick house which was for several years the home of Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner"; on Analostan Island in the river was a home of James Murray Mason; Georgetown Heights was the home of the popular novelist, Mrs Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819-1899).

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  • The eastern counties of Stormont and Glengarry, and parts of the western peninsula, had been settled by Highlanders; the Canada Company, organized in 1825 by the Scottish novelist, John Galt, had founded the town of Guelph, had cleared large tracts of land in the western peninsula, and settled thereon hundreds of the best .class of English and Scotch settlers.

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  • He was for a while, without doubt, the leading living novelist, and he went on producing works of great force, in which, however, a certain motonony is apparent.

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  • The first prosaist of the time was, without question, the novelist, Karl Jonas Ludvig Almqvist, Almqvist.

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  • The first, a wonderful impressionist though not perhaps a great novelist, describes to perfection the domestic and social life of Portugal in the early part of the 10th century.

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  • Clifford soon earned for herself a prominent place in English literary life as a novelist, and later as a dramatist.

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  • John Galt, the novelist, was educated in Greenock, where he also served some time in the custom house as a clerk.

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  • The house is considered to be the original of "Castlewood" in Thackeray's Esmond; the novelist was acquainted with the place through his friendship with the Rev. William Brookfield and his wife, the daughter of Sir Charles Elton of Clevedon Court.

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  • In still more recent times Beccaria (1738-1794) as a jurist, Monti (1754-1828) as a poet and Manzoni (1785-1873) as a novelist, have won for the Milanese a high reputation.

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  • The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

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