Sentence examples for successful historical from inspiring English sources

"Mission to Paris" is the 12th of his enormously successful historical spy novels, and one of the best.

Both this new book and its predecessor, "Wolf Hall," are mysteriously successful historical novels, a somewhat gimcrack genre not exactly jammed with greatness.

If a successful work of fiction is an illusionist's trick, then surely successful historical fiction requires a kind of double deception.

By the mid-90s Gore's career as a highly successful historical novelist, mostly on American subjects – Aaron Burr, Lincoln and so on – was fading, partly because of his failed attempts to repeat the success of Myra Breckinridge, his great comic celebration of polymorphous sexuality.

She is well placed to do so: a newly successful historical novelist (Girl in a Blue Dress, inspired by the relationship between Charles Dickens and his wife, made the Booker longlist), she knows Oxford well, and knows the ways and fears of children from her four decades as a Birmingham social worker.

Cogito compares the characteristics of a current conversation to those of successful historical calls.

However, in order for it to be successful, the historical cases it is based on need to be reasonably comparable to the case in question.

Just in time for its 100th year anniversary, Toilet manufacturer TOTO created the museum to feature more than 950 of the most successful and historical sanitary inventions. .

Heyer, who died in 1974, was an equally successful queen of historical romance who prided herself on her period research.

Antonio Gala, a multitalented, original, and commercially successful playwright, debunked historical myths while commenting allegorically on contemporary Spain via expressionistic humour and comedy.

Yet Mr. Wen's next words were startling: Without successful political reform, "historical tragedies such as the Cultural Revolution may happen again in China," he warned.