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The Distant Hours is the third novel by Australian author Kate Morton. [1] The hardback edition was published in the United Kingdom by Pan Macmillan in November 2010, the paperback was published in 2011. The Distant Hours was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller in hardback. [citation needed]
The Hours, a 1998 novel by the American writer Michael Cunningham, is a tribute to Virginia Woolf's 1923 work Mrs Dalloway.Cunningham emulates elements of Woolf's writing style while revisiting some of her themes in different settings.
Carys Davies, for The Guardian, referred to the novel as a "thrilling narrative, full of twists and turns". [2] Catherine Taylor, for the Financial Times, praised In the Distance as an "extraordinary epic tale". [5] The novel was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction [1] [6] and the Pulitzer Prize. [7]
Commonly, distant reading is performed at scale, using a large collection of texts. However, some scholars have adopted the principles of distant reading in the analysis of a small number of texts or an individual text. [6] Distant reading often shares with the Annales school a focus on the analysis of long-term histories and trends.
The book's focus is the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages which caused widespread suffering in Europe in the 14th century. Drawing heavily on Froissart's Chronicles, Tuchman recounts the histories of the Hundred Years' War, the Black Plague, the Papal Schism, pillaging mercenaries, anti-Semitism, popular revolts including the Jacquerie in France, the liberation of Switzerland, the Battle of the ...
Netochka Nezvanova (Russian: Не́точка Незва́нова) is an unfinished novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. [1] It was originally intended as a large scale work in the form of a 'confession', however the only part completed and published is a background sketch of the eponymous heroine's childhood and adolescence.
The original novelette "The Songs of Distant Earth" was the cover story for the June 1958 issue of If.Cover art by Mel Hunter. The Songs of Distant Earth is a 1986 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, based upon his 1958 short story of the same title.
The Golden Hour was well received by critics, including a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, who hailed it as "a fresh twist on the WWII love story, with a narrator who practically demands Myrna Loy come back to life to play her in the movie."