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Print ( hardcover and paperback ), audiobook, e-book. The Shardlake series is a series of historical mystery novels by C. J. Sansom, set in 16th century Tudor England. The series features barrister Matthew Shardlake, who, while navigating the religious reforms of Henry VIII, solves crime and tries to avoid getting caught up in political intrigue.
Owing to the influence of Ian Watt's seminal study in literary sociology, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (1957), Watt's candidate, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), gained wide acceptance. See also. List of first novels by language; Category:Novels by date for earlier claimants in English and other languages.
Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton. [2] A cautionary tale about genetic engineering, it presents the collapse of a zoological park showcasing genetically recreated dinosaurs to illustrate the mathematical concept of chaos theory [3] and its real-world implications.
The novel that inspired Brie Larson's Oscar's winning performance in the movie of the same name was influenced by horrific circumstances. In 1984, a 17-year-old girl named Elisabeth Fritzl was ...
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel first published in 1740 by the English writer Samuel Richardson. Considered one of the first true English novels, it serves as Richardson's version of conduct literature about marriage. Pamela tells the story of a fifteen-year-old maidservant named Pamela Andrews ...
Sadly John dies two years into their marriage, having complained of a headache one morning and is later found dead later that day. Francesca's love story is actually with John's cousin Michael ...
John Green is opening up about how his own lifelong battle with OCD inspired his 2017 novel, Turtles All the Way Down — and how he hopes Max’s new book-to-screen adaptation will help others in ...
Aside from the light novels written by Kawahara, there are also two spin-offs written by other authors with supervision by him. The first one is Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online series written by Keiichi Sigsawa and illustrated by Kouhaku Kuroboshi , while the other is Sword Art Online Alternative Clover's Regret , written by Watase ...