Novels in sentence

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It wasn’t until his late 50’s that he published his greatest creation: an epic satire of chivalry novels.

To challenge them, he wrote Don Quixote, the story of a hidalgo, or idle nobleman, who spends his days and nights reading chivalry novels.

Even in the Americas, where the Church banned all novels for being sinful distractions, audiences were known to enjoy pirated editions.

You read novels that might become movies, you read comic books that might become movies, you read articles that might become movies, you read scripts that might become movies.

And you read scripts from writers that might write the adaptations of the novels, of the comic books, of the articles, and might rewrite the scripts that you're already working on.

So in the 1970s, he originally trained as a doctor, but then he wrote novels and he directed the original "Westworld" movie.

She published two novels, but is perhaps best known for her short stories, which explored small-town life with stinging language, offbeat humor, and delightfully unsavory scenarios.

Written in the early nineteenth century, Austen's novels decode the sheltered lives of the upper classes in rural England.

Born in 1775, she lived in the social circles found in her novels.

They think of the old medium, because the old medium is always the content of the new medium, as movies tend to be the content of TV, and as books used to be the content, novels used to be the content of movies.

After high school, he began writing novels and essays while taking a series of odd jobs.

One of her most beloved novels, the "Parable of the Sower," follows this pattern.

But his work has inspired numerous short stories, novels, tabletop games, and cultural icons.

Written in Moscow during the 1930s, this surreal blend of political satire, historical fiction, and occult mysticism has earned a legacy as one of the 20th century’s greatest novels– and one of its strangest.

His novels and short stories often forge fantastic connections between personal experience, supernatural possibilities, and Japanese history.

She’s the subject of countless documentaries, novels, and operas, and appears on Mexico’s 200-peso banknote.

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

And for love, they all asked for the kind of romantic love, the soul mate that we read about in epic romantic novels, the kind of love that will stay with us till the end of our days.

I lived in a very vibrant, diverse neighborhood where I wrote several of my novels.

Writers are entitled to their political opinions, and there are good political novels out there, but the language of fiction is not the language of daily politics.

Having read the book several times (and all the other historical novels by Mika Waltari) there is no way to say much good in this film.

Loosely based on novels by Earl Derr Biggers, 20th Century Fox's Charlie Chan series proved an audience favorite--but when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor the studio feared audiences would turn against its Asian hero.

Check out David Lynch's one, that's the perfect tribute to the novels!

I enjoy romance novels and tearing apart the occasional unimpressive African warlord.

I am very interested in animal children and I have read many Edger Rice Burroughs novels -- but this awful movie couldn't keep me interested, nor could I stomach all the absurd, unrealistic scenes.

I don't really know why so many persons love this movie: maybe it's funny, OK, but it has totally ruined one of the best novels ever written.

Mansfield Park, in its second half, is my favorite of Austen's novels, and Fanny Price my favorite of her heroines, so I'm saddened by the unhappy fate she's suffered in her big- and small-screen representations.

Having loved Stephen King's novels and short stories for many years, I, like most reviewers, have been consistently disappointed in the adaptations to film from his printed works.

I'm a big fan of Thomas Harris,I read all his novels at least 5 times and Hannibal's the book I really love the most.Therefore the movie was my biggest disappointment and I really don't get it why some folks here give it a nine or even a ten.Either their demands are very low or they haven't read the book or both.Even if I hadn't read the book I'd still consider the movie as absolute average and I'd give it a five.

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