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When the Whales Came is a 1989 British drama film directed by Clive Rees and starring Helen Mirren, Paul Scofield, David Suchet, Barbara Jefford, David Threlfall, John Hallam, Barbara Ewing, and Jeremy Kemp. [1] It is based on the 1985 children's book Why the Whales Came written by Michael Morpurgo.
Why the Whales Came is a British children's story written by Michael Morpurgo. It was first published in 1985 in the United Kingdom by William Heinemann , and by Scholastic in the United States. It is set on the island of Bryher , one of the Isles of Scilly , off the coast of Cornwall , in the year 1914. [ 1 ]
The Whale is a 2022 American psychological drama film [5] directed by Darren Aronofsky and adapted by Samuel D. Hunter, based on his 2012 play of the same name. The film stars Brendan Fraser , Sadie Sink , Hong Chau , Ty Simpkins , and Samantha Morton .
Morpurgo said he was inspired to write the novel because of "two strange stories that happened in the same day". [3] He noted how he went on holiday with his wife to Ithaca, and the couple was staying at a house on the beach, and they came to realize that this beach was where, according to legend, Odysseus walked when he came back from the Trojan War.
Mørch writes that the characters of When the Whales Leave are too simple for the work to be properly described as a “modern novel,” and that “it is tempting to describe the work as an epic rather than a novel.” [8] Overall, in terms of genre and influences, Mørch argues When the Whales Leave is “a rare amalgam of widely different ...
Ishmael is a character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), which opens with the line "Call me Ishmael." He is the first-person narrator of much of the book. Because Ishmael plays a minor role in the plot, early critics of Moby-Dick assumed that Captain Ahab was the protagonist.
She's Come Undone is the 1992 debut novel by Wally Lamb.The novel was selected as the fourth book for Oprah's Book Club in December 1996. [1] Lamb's novel was named a finalist for the 1992 Los Angeles Book Awards' Art Seidenbaum Prize for first fiction. [2]
The Wreck Of The Zanzibar is a children's novel written by Michael Morpurgo.It was first published in Great Britain by William Heinemann Publishers in 1995. The book won the Whitbread Children's Book Award in 1995, it was shortlisted for a Carnegie Medal, and won the Children's Book Award for Long Novel in 1996.