Sentence examples for novel portrays from inspiring English sources
The short novel portrays the misfortunes of itinerant beggars such as the title character.
And yet the novel portrays him as a species of saint, as "The End of the Affair" does Sarah.
It has no mention of gay sex or prison sex, even though those both are greater H.I.V. risk factors than the teenage heterosexual sex that the novel portrays.
Like Sterne's contemporary, Adam Smith, the novel portrays the "good soldier" as a touchstone of the moral values of fellow-feeling and self-sacrifice.
Animals, Emma Jane Unsworth's second novel, portrays an unconventional love triangle that from the very beginning promises to leave everyone involved heart-battered.
By Pankaj Mishra To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen seemed united, but Ma Jian's novel portrays them as egotistical and fractious.
The two works are comic historical bookends, with Gogol's novel portraying the sloth and corruption of feudal Russia and Yerofeyev's novel portraying the sloth and corruption of feudal Communism.
Mr. Jourde, a native of Lussaud, drew on several local characters for his novel, portraying them as drunks and simpletons.
The novel portrayed the decline of an aristocratic family, taken aback by the transformations in power relations imposed by the newly unified state of Italy.
The novel portrayed one of the most memorable and revered characters in American literature, the reserved and unassuming Atticus Finch, a small-town lawyer who in the 1930s defends a black man falsely accused of rape in Depression-era Alabama. Depression-era Alabama
But now the excellent novelist Hilary Mantel has joined the tournament, with "Wolf Hall Henry Holtlt; $27), a five-hundred-and-thirty-two-page novel portraying Cromwell as a wise minister and a decent man.
