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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]
The Hours is a 2002 psychological period-drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, from a screenplay by David Hare based on Michael Cunningham's 1998 novel. It stars Nicole Kidman , Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep as three women whose lives are connected by Virginia Woolf 's 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway .
The term "distant reading" is generally attributed to Franco Moretti and his 2000 article, Conjectures on World Literature. [1] In the article, Moretti proposed a mode of reading which included works outside of established literary canons, which he variously termed "the great unread" [2] and, elsewhere, "the Slaughterhouse of Literature". [3]
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 ...
The intention of the work was to set down the essential parts of the "ideal novel". Austen was following, and guying, the recommendations of Clarke. [1] The work was also influenced by some of Austen's personal circle with views on the novel of courtship, and names are recorded in the margins of the manuscript; [9] they included William Gifford, her publisher, and her niece Fanny Knight.
As stated in its introduction, Distant Star is an expansion of the final chapter of Bolaño's later work, Nazi Literature in the Americas, [3] an encyclopedic novel composed of short biographies of imaginary Pan-American authors on the political right. The section, entitled "The Infamous Ramírez Hoffman", is the longest in the novel and is ...