Sentence examples for earliest novel from inspiring English sources

His earliest novel "The Sun Also Rises", which he wrote at the age of 27, was finished in 7 weeks.

Grossman has not ventured into this territory in his fiction for a long time – not since his earliest novel, The Smile of the Lamb, which was the first Israeli novel to be written about the occupation.

Jonathan Franzen writes in the preface that one of the books - "The Custom of the Country" - "is the earliest novel to portray an America... to which the Kardashians, Twitter and Fox News would come as no surprise".

"The Custom of the Country" is the earliest novel to portray an America I recognize as fully modern, the first fictional rendering of a culture to which the Kardashians, Twitter, and Fox News would come as no surprise.

In the early 1980s Gates rediscovered the earliest novel by an African American, Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig (1859), by proving that the work was in fact written by an African American woman and not, as had been widely assumed, by a white man from the North.

"The Custom of the Country" is by no means the earliest novel in which marriages are dissolved, but it's the first novel in the Western canon to put serial divorce at its center, and in so doing it sounds the death knell of the "marriage plot" that had invigorated countless narratives in centuries past.

But Acton was right to describe Mitford's later embarrassment over her earliest novels as "unreasonable".

He described his spiritual awakening there in one of his earliest novels,The Pilgrimage.

Your earliest novels, Crazy Paving and Dance With Me, got mixed in with "chicklit".

Ms. Brooke-Rose's earliest novels, published in the late 1950s, are conventional satires of manners.

La Peau de Chagrin, among his earliest novels, is a pessimistic tale of confusion and destruction.