Sentence examples for novel against from inspiring English sources

(J. K. Huysmans's 1884 perverse-aesthetic novel Against Nature is a precursor of this mode).

In the 1884 novel Against Nature, Joris-Karl Huysmans wrote about a decadent aristocrat who retreats to a villa to be alone with his luxury obsession - before dying of terminal ennui, he wears fur in boiling weather.

Heil Hitler!" Kempowski's ironic control braces the novel against melodrama.

I had misremembered Forster's celebrated book as a rather prim and joyless novel against imperialism.

In effect, Mr Wood ring-fences the novel against life.But in that case, how serious is Mr Wood's "real sympathy"?

With such a device, Parks cleverly inoculates his novel against criticism — or, as the Dasguptians might call it, "judgment".

Nathaniel Rich, the author of the novel "Odds Against Tomorrow," lives in New Orleans.

Nathaniel Rich is the author of the novels "Odds Against Tomorrow" and "The Mayor's Tongue".

A place to read thick novels against a tree on a quad where students throw Frisbees.

Her other interest includes writing and she is the author of the fiction novels "Against The Perfect Will" and "Morning Does Come".

There was a reason why F. Scott Fitzgerald set so many of his novels against the backdrop of Long Island's North Shore.