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The Keys of the Kingdom is a 1941 novel by A. J. Cronin. Spanning six decades, it tells the story of Father Francis Chisholm, an unconventional Scottish Catholic priest who struggles to establish a mission in China. Beset by tragedy in his youth, as a missionary Chisholm endures many years of hardship, punctuated by famine, plague and war in ...
The Washington Post named it "a book of blazing brilliance". [3] USA Today called it "stealthily devastating" [4] while Vox gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars. [5] The novel also received positive reviews from The New York Times Book Review, [6] The New Yorker, [7] The Boston Globe, [8] The Guardian, [9] Chicago Review of Books, [10] and The New ...
Systems novel is a literary genre named by Tom LeClair in his 1987 book In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel, and explored further in LeClair's 1989 book, The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction. [1] LeClair used systems theory to critique novels by authors including Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis and Ursula Le Guin.
The Broken Kingdoms is a fantasy novel by American writer N. K. Jemisin, the second book of her The Inheritance Trilogy. [1] It takes place ten years after the events of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and centers around a young woman named Oree Shoth, who lives in the World Tree-shrouded, godling-inhabited city of Shadow.
The book centers on the comparatively normal Lenore Beadsman, a 24-year-old telephone switchboard operator who gets caught in the middle of a Cleveland-based character drama. Lenore deals with three separate crises: her great-grandmother's escape from a nursing home , a neurotic boyfriend, and a suddenly vocal pet cockatiel .
The Kingdom is the third in a series of adventure novels by Clive Cussler, co-authored by Grant Blackwood, whose main characters are adventurers and treasure hunters Sam Fargo and his wife, Remi. The book's hardcover edition was first published June 6, 2011. Other editions of this novel were released on various dates in 2011 and 2012. [1] [2] [3]
Set toward the end of the 1st century, the story follows Luke and other members of a marginal and apocalyptic Jewish sect. Luke gets to know Paul, investigates the group's executed founder and ends up writing the Acts of the Apostles, the Gospel of Luke and most of the Catholic epistles.
The Stonemason: A History of Building Britain is a book written by Andrew Ziminski, published by John Murray in 2020. [1] The book is divided into four parts, combining a chronological and geological approach, with each part concentrating on a single type of stone and how it is used in a particular architectural style and period. [2]