Example sentences of "[unc] [adj] novel [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Hitoshi Igarashi , the Japanese translator of Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie 's controversial novel The Satanic Verses , was found stabbed to death on July 12 on the campus of Tsukaba University in Mito , outside Tokyo . |
| 2 | He would be based on Holden Caulfield , the fictional character of J.D.Salinger 's funny-sad novel The Catcher In the Rye , which told the story of a teenager driven to despair by the phoniness and hypocrisy of the adult world , and created a huge impact on its publication in the Fifties . |
| 3 | Although trained as a morphologist , he had a long-standing interest in the fossil record and published a well illustrated book on Extinct Animals in 1905 , which provided the information on prehistoric animals for Arthur Conan Doyle 's popular novel The Lost World of 1912 . |
| 4 | Steinberg , introducing Klein 's brilliant novel The Second Scroll , draws attention to , ‘ The obsessive theme of the discovered poetry ( of New Israel ) is the miraculous , and the key image necessary to explain the remarkable vitality , the rebirth evidenced in every aspect of life , is the miracle . ’ |
| 5 | Eight years earlier in Patrick Hamilton 's widely-acclaimed novel The Midnight Bell , the young Jews of Soho were presented with little more charity except the reservation that they were ‘ brigands rather than crooks , and would probably end , not in jail , but business . ’ |
| 6 | It shares with Brooke-Rose 's 1960s novels the same basic technique of literalizing specialized discourses by means of a metaphoric mapping of one discourse onto another . |
| 7 | This is how Jonathan Coe 's new novel The Dwarves of Death ( Fourth Estate , £12.95 ) got its name : ‘ The title came from a headline in the News of The World , a story about midget matadors in Spain . |
| 8 | THE FINAL PART OF CATHERINE COOKSON 'S NEW NOVEL THE HOUSE OF WOMEN |
| 9 | In books and interviews he has reminded the world that the French Surrealist poet Aragon , having praised Kundera 's excellent novel The Joke in 1968 , and having fulminated against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia — his legs would ‘ refuse ’ to take him to Russia any more — made it to Moscow four years later ; and that another French poet , Eluard , abandoned his Prague friend , the Surrealist Kalandra , to the executioner . |
| 10 | Umberto Eco 's magisterial novel The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ) , for example , plays on the dialectic between the reader 's curiosity about the medieval world and his/her almost total ignorance of it ( funnelled , as Eco explains in his Reflections on the novel , through the observations of the novice Adso ( Eco 1985 : 33–4 ) ; between the sense that the historical world ( the abbey and the cultural and religious context of the time ) is a world of its own and the sense that it is connected to the world of the reader . |
| 11 | Heinemann liquidated Anthony Burgess ' early novel The Worm and the Ring , although the complainant — a school secretary from Banbury — did n't even share a name with the character she thought resembled her . |