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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]
She is known for her best-selling novels, including The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, and The Distant Hours. Her seventh book, Homecoming , was published in April 2023. Early life and education
The Distant Hours; Docherty (novel) The Dragon Man; ... The Life (novel) The Lord of the Rings; Lovesong (novel) ... A New Social Analysis;
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.
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 ...
A Distant Shore is the seventh novel by Black British author Caryl Phillips, published in 2003 by Secker & Warburg in the UK and Knopf in the US. It was a finalist for the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award. [1] In the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize it won the Best Book Prize in the Europe and South Asia category and was judged that year's overall Best ...
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 .