Christie had the most magnificent plots and great stories, but I don't think anyone would say that she wrote believable stuff, people didn't want that from her.
Some of the finest espionage literature was published in the 1930's, when Mr. Ambler ("Epitaph for a Spy," "A Coffin for Dimitrios") and Graham Greene ("This Gun for Hire," "The Confidential Agent") spun magnificent plots out of the rise of fascism and the cartels of weapons manufacturers -- the so-called "merchants of death," who were believed to be manipulating nations into war.
Mr. Hilton and Ms. McCrory are quietly magnificent, transforming melodramatic plot turns into natural steps in two people's unwitting and dangerous self-discovery.
It was Süleyman's Army that defeated the Hungarian forces at the Battle of Mohács and launched the first Ottoman siege of Vienna, though the plot of "Magnificent Century" focusses more on the life of the harem, and the intrigues among Süleyman's wife, concubines, mother, sisters, children, and viziers.
This, highly abstracted, is the plot of "Magnificent Obsession," a 1929 best seller by Lloyd C. Douglas that inspired two successful films: a 1935 version starring Robert Taylor as Bob, and Irene Dunne as Helen, and directed by John M. Stahl, and a more celebrated 1954 remake featuring Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman, under the direction of Douglas Sirk.
Here we have Bourne again on the run and two magnificent chases dominate this plot.
Its plot was magnificent, an against-the-odds tale of teenage survival balanced against stubborn, stiff-lipped, cold and calculated existence before a backdrop of society-destroying outbreak, and its sole story-focused DLC, Left Behind, was a beautiful, heart-wrenching insight into how the "infected" Ellie we meet in the game proper came to be that way.
Daniel Ostling's appropriately elemental set divides into water (that magnificent pool), heaven (the cloud-flecked scrim behind which the gods plot and pity) and the world of mortals (the wooden door).
Our plot is looking magnificent, like a fairy story allotment where a giant lives.
I'm gonna go in another direction and focus purely on African stories because they have all of our monsters and our witches and our beasts and our mad kings and plotting princesses and magnificent cities. It'll be an invented kingdom and probably more magical realist than fantasy.
