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Regarded as the first story of modern speculative fiction to depict the end of the world [2] Poem 1816 Sun "Darkness" Lord Byron Describes the end of life on Earth after the Sun's extinction Novel 1826 Disease The Last Man [3] Mary Shelley: Novel 1872 Technology "The Book of Machines" The novel Erewhon 's section "The Book of Machines" Novel ...
The book was adapted into a short documentary film, CamperForce (2017), in which Bruder served as a producer alongside director Brett Story and executive producer Laura Poitras. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In February 2019, Fox Searchlight Pictures announced that the book had been optioned by Frances McDormand and Peter Spears .
Like Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman in White (1859), Laura is narrated in the first person by several alternating characters. [2] These individual stories all revolve around the apparent murder of the title character, a successful New York advertiser killed in the doorway of her apartment with a shotgun blast that obliterated her face.
The Last Kingdom is a British historical fiction television series based on Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Stories series of novels. [1] The first season debuted on BBC America on 10 October 2015, and BBC Two on 22 October 2015.
Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Chloé Zhao.Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves her life in Nevada to travel around the United States in her van as a nomad.
[1] [2] The book was also an instant #1 bestseller in Canada and remained at #1 for 4 weeks. The Last Thing He Told Me received positive reviews from BookPage, [3] Library Journal, [4] PureWow, [5] Associated Press, [6] and Kirkus. [1] Publishers Weekly [7] and Booklist [8] gave it a mixed review. The audiobook received a starred review from ...
The Last Time I Lied was first published in hardback and ebook format in the United States on July 3, 2018, through Dutton. [2] An audiobook adaptation narrated by Nicol Zanzarella was released simultaneously through Penguin Audio. [3] The book has been published in the United Kingdom and has been translated into Chinese and German. [4] [5] [6]
The Last Station is a novel by Jay Parini that was first published in 1990. It is the story of the final year in the life of Leo Tolstoy, told from multiple viewpoints, including Tolstoy's young secretary, Valentin Bulgakov, his wife, Sophia Tolstaya, his daughter Sasha, his publisher and close friend, Vladimir Chertkov, and his doctor, Dushan Makovitsky.