The books we chose were partly selected by the school's teachers to complement the limited materials the MOE provides, and partly novels, short stories, wordless books and self-help books we chose.
"The Uncoupling" is, of course, only partly a novel about magic.
Partly the novel sets itself up as a poke at the caprice of modern media culture.
The real intensity of Aldington's (partly autobiographical) novel instead lies in his savage condemnation of a society responsible for the slaughter of its own men.
This partly epistolary novel, set in Ireland, concerns the romance between Horatio, a young Englishman, and Glorvina, whose father's Irish estate has been destroyed by Horatio's father.
Mr. Mailer burst on the scene in 1948 with "The Naked and the Dead," a partly autobiographical novel about World War II, and for six decades he was rarely far from center stage.
In Some Trace of Her at the National Theatre, Katie Mitchell produced a memorable 90-minute response to Dostoevsky's partly autobiographical novel, The Idiot, about a holy fool afflicted with epilepsy, whose goodness means he is underestimated by those he encounters.
In this partly autobiographical novel by one of China's best-known authors, three women come of age in the early sixties, at a time when even sofas, as a foreign import, were suspected of exerting "a bad influence on the spirit and body of the people".
The Great Gatsby is partly a novel about the rise of celebrity culture, about the empty worship of hedonistic pleasure and material luxury, our desire for the so-called "high life".
