Word: novelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NATIVE Chilean Isabel Allende's third novel, Eva Luna, takes us away from the military dictatorship and riot police of her previous works and into a world where guerrilla fighters, African saints and women who sleep in coffins dominate...
Mahdi added that Mahfouz's most famous work is Trilogy, a novel completed in 1957, which describes the spiritual and economic transformation of Cairo during the second world...
JAMES MICHAEL CURLEY--Four times elected mayor, four times elected to Congress, once elected Governor and twice imprisoned, this upstart Irishman was the model for the protagonist of Edwin O'Connor's political novel, The Last Hurrah. But Curley's career was as checkered as it was successful. During his 1945 mayoral campaign, Curley was under indictment for mail fraud, based on a $60,000 favor he had done while in Congress. Curley won the election, was convicted of the charges and drew his mayoral salary for five months while in jail. When he was released in 1947, the people...
Introducing the film based on his 1964 novel "Gideon's Trumpet," Lewis told 50 Law School students that the ACLU is necessary organization which fights for and protects people's basic civil liberties. "Gideon's Trumpet" details the U.S. Supreme Court case of Gideon vs. Wainwright, which extended the right of legal representation to defendants who could not afford...
...decades, writers have followed James Joyce's characterization of Ireland as "the old sow that eats her farrow." But that is not the way of William Trevor. His novel takes place on Carriglas, a tiny island off the Irish coast, where a Protestant family's present griefs are rooted in the events of long ago. Sarah Pollexfen's cousins once cruelly terrorized the son of a tenant farmer; as a man he sought revenge with a bomb that accidentally killed the family butler. The servant's illegitimate child, product of a liaison with a Catholic maid, survives him. When...