Example sentences of "[unc] novel of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unsurprisingly , there was talk that Dustin was being considered for the title role of Portnoy 's Complaint , the film version of Philip Roth 's novel of a Jewish mother-dominated boy with masturbation problems . |
| 2 | The literary naturalism of the last century went to the poor and itemised their way of life , producing for adversity truthful , distressing inventories and interiors — as in George Moore 's novel of the Nineties , Esther Waters , which starts with a manor-house , servants and horses , and travels to Soho for compulsive gambling and a fatal cough . |
| 3 | THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS by James Fenimore Cooper Everyman , £5.99 IT IS a great pity that James Fenimore Cooper 's novel of the American Frontier should have been , for the most part , consigned to the children 's shelf . |
| 4 | The original film , with Henry Fonda , James Cagney and Jack Lemmon based on Thomas Heggen 's novel of the same name was applauded worldwide . |
| 5 | Friday is a thrilling and playful solo dance piece and is based on Michael Tournier 's novel of the same name . |
| 6 | Like the novel we read , Gael 's novel of the same name is a ‘ philosophic fantasy ’ ( 9 ) , but it appears to be even less realistic than its real-life double ; it is described as a disquisition on the nature of reality with characters that flit in and out of existence . |