Graham Greene called the last novel "a disaster, " and edited a 1963 edition of "Parade's End" that left out the fourth novel entirely.
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His most drastic and controversial departure from the text was leaving out most of the last novel, a choice that irked some Ford scholars.
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In my own brief life as a serial writer, I found that the last half of the novel was not as difficult as the first.
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But the plot moves so quickly and smoothly that I read it in a fraction of the time it took to complete his last novel, the slightly shorter (but much heavier) Anathem.
Sadly, we are left with the equivalent of a mystery novel with the last chapter ripped out.
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He began researching the book in 2001, and threw himself into the novel during the last two years of his life.
"The Last Station" was adapted from the novel by Jay Parini, and its structure is fairly intricate parallel love stories (Tolstoy and Sofya, Valentin and Masha), plus interlocking triangles (Sofya and Chertkov contending for Tolstoy's soul, Sofya and Chertkov pumping Valentin for information about one another's grip on Tolstoy's property).
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Dow Chemical Co. started selling a new plastic last year, the first novel version of polypropylene in 30 years.
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When the novel was at last published in 1995, shortly after Mrs Onassis's death and dedicated to her memory, Miss West found herself suddenly famous.
Kartheiser has often dipped in and out of theater projects, most recently playing the lead in the world premiere of "The Death of the Novel" at the San Jose Repertory Theatre last year.
If anything, Mantel is even less sentimental in this novel than in the last in her appraisal of Henry and Cromwell.
In a rare case of the stars aligning, the film's Hollywood ending is utterly faithful to the last pages of Hammett's novel at least in spirit, if not dialogue.
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So when Terrence Rafferty, in the Times Book Review last year, expressed disappointment with a novel that tried and failed to transcend the limitations of its genre, he caught some flak.
These are the kind of missteps Fitzgerald doubtlessly would have corrected had he lived to finish "The Last Tycoon, " but he died in December 1940, with the novel incomplete.
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The writer, who won the Booker Prize last year, also received the Costa Book of the Year for the novel in January.
When the final novel, "At Last, " was released in January, few American readers had heard of Mr. St.
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To answer that tough question, the EPA tried a novel approach: Last spring it launched something called a "negotiated rulemaking, " bringing together delegates from 25 groups representing the real estate industry, environmental watchdogs and the government.
Over the last two decades, neuroscience has revolutionized our understanding of the brain and given us novel ways to assess cognitive and personality traits.
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In the Aug. 23 memo, the DOE official responsible for supervising engineering at the facility, Gary Brunson, calls for Bechtel to be immediately removed as the design agent for the novel Waste Treatment Plant (WTP), which was supposed to begin operation last year.
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" He returned in the 1995 novel "Riding the Rap" and last appeared in the 2001 short story "Fire in the Hole.
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The last thing you want when you're planning to visit the loo, and one in a novel setting with different skill levels, is the pressure of knowing people are waiting on the other side of the door, wanting to know how it went.
On the train from Paddington last night I bumped into one former Welsh Labour MP who was putting the finishing touches to his novel.
Morrison, battling the flu and sniffling through much of the afternoon, was promoting the paperback edition of her novel "Home, " published last year.
"Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen" ("Rienzi, Last of the Tribunes, " 1840), after a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, takes up the epic mode of French grand opera.
Last year I contacted him about writing a story on the novel ways in which he is now digitally shooting and distributing his indie movies.
But as with an annoying novel, we still want the option of flipping to the last page to see how things turn out.
Boyd also made headlines last week when he was offered the chance to write the next James Bond novel.
Connecting each other in new and novel ways seems to have been a theme for businesses in the last 12 months, perhaps most appropriately in the hospitality industry.
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K. Rowling went in a new direction with "The Casual Vacancy, " an adult-literary novel that Little, Brown published last fall.
The fund has been bestowing this honor for the last 40 years, and, at least in recent years, has been doing so in a novel way.
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