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Beloved is a 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison.Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit.
Beloved, based on the Toni Morrison novel; Beloved, a French film written and directed by Christophe Honoré; The Beloved, a Soviet film directed by Ivan Pyryev; The Beloved, also known as Sin, a 1971 British film written and directed by George P. Cosmatos; The Beloved, a Georgian film
Two months later, Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [41] It also won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. [50] Beloved is the first of three novels about love and African-American history, sometimes called the Beloved Trilogy. [51]
Beloved is a 1998 American gothic psychological horror drama film [2] directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandiwe Newton.Based on Toni Morrison's 1987 novel of the same name, the plot centers on a formerly enslaved woman after the American Civil War, her haunting by a poltergeist, and the visitation of her reincarnated daughter.
Beloved (1987) received the most votes in the poll. "What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?" is an informal opinion poll conducted in 2006 by the New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) to determine "the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years." Eligible works were those written by an American ...
List of BBC's "100 Most Inspiring Novels" [2] Title Author First published [8] BBC category Author's nationality Beloved: Toni Morrison: 1987: Identity: American Days Without End
Beloved is a much more powerful novel than this article makes it out to be. It's a masterpiece of literature, and the themes go way beyond the two that are listed. You could write a freaking essay on the last two pages alone!
The Well Beloved is one of Hardy's last novels. It was first published in three-part serial form in 1892, and then revised and re-published as a book in 1897, after Hardy's last novel Jude the Obscure (1895). [2] The novel tells the story of the sculptor Jocelyn Pierston's search for the ideal woman, through three generations of a Portland family.