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Over at Kirkus:Rosemarkedby Livia Blackburne We are over at Kirkus for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn today, with a look at a brand new YA historical fantasy novel Rosemarked by Livia Blackburne. An alternating first person narrative following two protagonists as they secretly… ...
A 1963 deal with MGM had led to a completed script with Sean Connery set to play Schindler, but the project was scrapped when Connery backed out. Spielberg first learned of Schindler when he read a review of Keneally’s novel in The New York Times. Although he did not immediately commit ...
The real-life rivalry between beauty titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein inspired Gill Paul's "A Beautiful Rival." Spanning decades from the early 1900s to the post-World War II era and beyond, the novel traces how these two women rose from obscurity, painting over their humble origi...
Reading a fantastic historical novel can feel like traveling back to a different time period. You get to experience the joys, sorrows, and complexities of life in a different place and time. In this article, we’ve compiled a list of the 50 best historical fiction books out there, as well...
Our second core contribution is to deploy historical methods to highlight the emergence of a novel and, at the time, distinctive organizational form. We identify an earlier form of competence-creating subsidiary, which we call aproto-competence-creating subsidiary. In contrast to the competence-crea...
9. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Buy on Amazon Add to library Imagine a Dan Brown novel — an action-packed race to solve a serial murder mystery that can only be unraveled by decoding ancient manuscripts and artistic clues. The Name of the Rose is all that, but it’s set in...
Most authorities believe the character of Dracula in Bram Stoker’s novel was based upon the historical figure Vlad Tepes (pronounced tse-pesh), who intermittently ruled an area of the Balkans called Wallachia in the mid 15thcentury. He was also called by the names Vlad III, Vlad Dracula and...
10. Empire of the Sun (1987) Warner Bros. Steven Spielberg’sEmpire of the Sunstars a then-13-year-old Christian Bale opposite John Malkovich and Miranda Richardson. Based on J. G. Ballard’s eponymous semiautobiographical novel, the film follows Jamie “Jim” Graham, a wealthy young Britis...