I think the theme of this novel is Imagination vs. Reality.
Cocteau's novel of imagination, isolation and dependence is as intense and self-conscious as its protagonists, and left WH Auden with a "lasting feeling of happiness".
trilogy — including "The 42nd Parallel," "1919" and "The Big Money" — that long before Truman Capote or E. L. Doctorow or the genre known as the nonfiction novel melded imagination and historical fact, real and invented people.
The novel captured imaginations globally and was turned into a film starring Sean Connery as William.
The novel in my imagination travels with me like a small lavender moth making loopy circles around my head.
For although she includes news, courtroom quotes, black-and-white photographs – intriguing and mournful souvenirs – the facts are scraps compared to the real substance of the novel, which is imagination itself: truth in fiction.
The three girls describe the school's gossip, rumours and counselling sessions for the benefit of their sax teacher, who acts to bring Julia and Isolde together while dwelling on her own unrequited love for Patsy, a character who is made present in the novel only through imagination, memory and desire.
Though rough at points, Yanique's debut novel bursts with imagination and intoxicating atmosphere, and the deeply felt characters at its heart demand to be heard.
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Dickens's novels fired his imagination even before he came to London - a favourite character was the self-sacrificing Sidney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities.
