Sentence examples for novel condemned from inspiring English sources

The novel, condemned by the Vatican and Anglican church leaders for distorting the Christian message, postulates that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene and had children by her, but Christians are taught that Christ never married and was childless when he was crucified.

The novel condemns a society that, in the persons of Frollo the archdeacon and Phoebus the soldier, heaps misery on the hunchback Quasimodo and the gypsy girl Esmeralda.

The novel was condemned by English religious figures and publicly burned by William Sewell; this led to Froude's resignation of his fellowship at Oxford University.

Their first opportunity to produce a major film came in 1918, when they purchased the film rights for My Four Years in Germany, a bestselling novel that condemned German wartime atrocities.

Almost all the literature of his own time, including all his own novels, he condemned as inimical to human brotherhood by emphasizing class distinction and pitting one group of humankind against another.

But the novel hardly condemns Strulovitch for his harsh monitoring of her behavior, which is portrayed as childish and vain.

But in the broader African-American intellectual world, the novel was widely condemned.

Rusli's family was not pleased with the novel; his father condemned him in a letter, as a result of which Rusli never returned to Padang.

"The historical novel is, for me, condemned," he wrote to Sarah Orne Jewett in 1901.

A few weeks ago, Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane was condemned by some residents of east London for its "insulting and shameful" depiction of the large Bengali Muslim population who live there.

Nearly 25 years after the publication of "The Satanic Verses," which forced Mr. Rushdie into hiding for a decade after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini condemned the novel and issued a fatwa calling for his death, Mr. Rushdie has emerged as an indefatigable presence on the New York night-life scene.