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[5] Beryl Bainbridge, Richard Adams, Ronald Harwood, and John Bayley also spoke positively of the work, while philosopher Roger Scruton described it as a "brilliant summary of story-telling". [6] Others have dismissed the book on grounds that Booker is too rigid in fitting works of art to the plot types above.
In The Independent on Sunday, Stephen Knight wrote: “A hybrid of novel-of-ideas and ripping yarn, This Thing of Darkness is more convincingly the latter. The crew's skirmishes with South American natives and a storm off the coast of Uruguay, presaged by wind-blown clouds of butterflies and moths, are beautifully managed set-pieces, pacy ...
When It Was Dark: The Story of a Great Conspiracy (1903) is a best selling Christian novel by English author Guy Thorne, in which a plot to destroy Christianity by falsely disproving the Resurrection of Jesus leads to moral disorder and chaos in the world until it is exposed as a fraud.
William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [3] [4] [5] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
Picoult was inspired by Winkler's essay, and wrote a novel on the premise of Lanier-as-Shakespeare, the 2024 By Any Other Name. [23] Novelist Gareth Roberts said that the idea is a great device for a novel, and that "If this was all the jolly wheeze that Picoult suggests, it was a hell of an elaborate and time-consuming one. It also relies ...
The Book of Dust is a second trilogy of novels set before, during and after His Dark Materials. [46] The first book, La Belle Sauvage , was published on 19 October 2017. [ 47 ] The second book, The Secret Commonwealth , was published on 3 October 2019.
It tells the story of Shakespeare's life with a mixture of fact and fiction, the latter including an affair with a black prostitute named Fatimah, who inspires the Dark Lady of the Sonnets. The title refers to the first line of Sonnet 130 , "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun", in which Shakespeare describes his love for a dark-haired ...
Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1962 dark fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury, and the second book in his Green Town Trilogy.It is about two 13-year-old best friends, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, and their nightmarish experience with a traveling carnival that comes to their Midwestern home, Green Town, Illinois, on October 24.