Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novel will serve as a teaser for its sequel. Fair enough. The more copies of Wuthering Heights available the better, for it is unquestionably the best of the hundreds of derivative gothic paperbacks published each year. Both Emily Brontë and her sister Charlotte (Jane Eyre) helped raise gothic fiction to the level of art. Before them, emotion-churning novels had been ludicrous affairs, monsters produced by the sleep of 18th century reason. The sisters' works domesticated gothic terror and made it seem, because it arose in a homely and familiar setting, more terrible still. The Bront...
...FICTION 1. The Thorn Birds, McCullough (1 last week) 2. The Silmarillion, Tolkien (2) 3. The Honourable Schoolboy, Le Carré (3) 4. Illusions, Bach (6) 5. The Black Marble, Wambaugh (5) 6. Dreams Die First, Robbing (10) 7. Beggarman, Thief, Shaw (9) 8. Daniel Martin, Fowles (4) 9. The Book of Merlyn, White (7) 10. Dynasty, Elegant...
...basic courses in addition to their electives. This would make it possible for related Expos courses to become a "standard feature," Byker said. The experimental sections supplement the basic Expos program, which for the past three years has offered classes emphasizing specific areas of writing such as fiction and literature...
...relationship between real experience and fiction is complicated," Crichton said. "People who write books in which the characters f--- a lot are assumed to f--- a lot themselves, when in reality, people who write books in which the characters f--- a lot often aren't getting laid. 'Coma' isn't meant to be a documentary," he added...
Stranger-than-fiction happenings at Columbia Pictures...