Sentence examples for narrative recounts from inspiring English sources

The lively narrative recounts the journey undertaken by sedentary London gentleman Phileas Fogg and his valet, Passepartout, in order to win a wager with Fogg's fellow club members.

The narrative recounts the tragic drugging and kidnapping of Northup, a free Northern black man, into Southern slavery, in which he remained for 12 years in the Louisiana Bayou Boeuf plantation region.

Much of the second half of Waine wright's narrative recounts his escape to France, his return to England, his trial for fraud (the murder charges could not be proved) and his dispatch to Australia.

The complex and frequently whimsical narrative recounts the search of Benny Profane and Herbert Stencil for the mysterious and elusive V, a woman who surfaces in various incarnations and guises at crucial moments in the history of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe.

Oney's exceptionally detailed narrative recounts the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, whose body was found in the Atlanta factory where she worked; the 1913 trial and conviction of the Jewish factory manager, Leo Frank and Frankk's lynching two years later by a group of prominent local citizens.

Whatever else a narrative recounts, he says, it also recounts care.

His first novel, Swami and Friends (1935), is an episodic narrative recounting the adventures of a group of schoolboys.

While traveling aboard a trans-Atlantic liner to London, David Brooke, the tormented hero of McElroy's first novel, tries to connect eight jumbled manuscripts into a single narrative recounting the lives and sufferings of his family and friends.

Through his transposition of Joseph Conrad's 1902 novella —a framed narrative recounting the horrors encountered on a trip by an English ivory company to the heart of Africa, where they are to relieve a mysterious representative who has gone AWOL Francis Ford Coppola relocated the setting to war-addled Vietnam to provide apt commentary on the savagery involved in American imperialistic endeavors.

The narrative, recounted by two friends in a pub, is about a kid they once knew called Nesbit who gets addicted to a soda drink called Spook.

However, "Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles," which opened Nov. 13 at MOCA Grand Avenue, posits a different narrative, recounting the famed New York photographer's sojourn in Los Angeles between 1947 and 1952 as a somewhat soured love affair.