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The Lovers is a science-fiction novella by American writer Philip José Farmer (1918–2009), first published in August 1952 in Startling Stories. In 1961, the work was expanded and published as a stand-alone softcover novel by Ballantine Books. In 1979, it was reissued by Ballantine as a Del Rey Classic in a final revised ("definitive") edition.
There are two published versions of The Lover: one written in the form of an autobiography, without any superimposed temporal structures, as the young girl narrates in first-person; the other, called The North China Lover and released in conjunction with the film version of the work, is in film script form, in the third person, with written dialogue and without internal monologue.
His first published short story, "Forky," was published by Playboy when Dubus was 23. [3] Dubus's novel, House of Sand and Fog (1999), was a finalist for the National Book Award [7] and was adapted for an Academy Award-nominated film of the same name. [8] The book was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. [9]
The Lover (French: L'Amant) is a 1992 erotic romantic drama film produced by Claude Berri and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. Based on the semi-autobiographical 1984 novel of the same name by Marguerite Duras , the film details the illicit affair between a teenage French girl and a wealthy Chinese man in 1929 French Indochina .
Narcissus and Goldmund (German: Narziß und Goldmund, pronounced [naʁˈtsɪs ʔʊnt ˈɡɔltmʊnt]), also published in English as Death and the Lover, is a novel written by the German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse which was first published in 1930.
Nocturnes (2004) – a collection of supernatural tales book-ended by two novellas, 9 of which are transcripts of stories written for presentation on BBC Radio Four Five Ghost Stories By John Connolly: The Erlking, Mr Pettinger's Demon, Mr Gray's Folly, The Ritual of the Bones, Nocturne. [37] Night Music: Nocturnes 2 (2015)
I. The Sailing of the Swallow In the poem's first canto the actual story begins, with elaborate descriptions of both Iseult and Tristram sailing to King Mark of Cornwall whom Iseult is to marry. The future lovers discuss various tales of the Matter of Britain and Tristram sings two love-songs to please the innocent Iseult. The canto ends with ...
McHugh concluded that Book Lovers is "a smart, charming and dazzling book unto itself". [4] Carole V. Bell, writing for NPR, also commented on the ways the novel both utilizes and subverts class romance tropes: "The story is multilayered and the characters' familial challenges are complex. By both playing to and overtly subverting romance ...