Sentence examples for weird novel from inspiring English sources

A truly weird novel about an alien in the Scottish Highlands.

But most of her substantial body of work — including her masterpiece, the beautifully weird novel "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" (1962) — is not widely read.

Ioanna Bourazopoulou, a prizewinner in her native Greece, had her first English translation: What Lot's Wife Saw (Black & White Publishing) is a beautifully weird novel about future environmental collapse and human estrangement.

And even if it turns out that that isn't quite true, its still abundantly clear from this strange, lovely, touching and weird novel (OK, technically it's a novella, but come on) that Salinger loves, misses and mourns for his friend Seymour every bit as much as Buddy, the book's narrator and Seymour's younger brother.

All that said, I think Gatsby is a particularly weird novel.

Since then, there have been two best-selling (if extremely weird) novels (Snobs, Past Imperfect); screenplays (The Young Victoria, Vanity Fair) and stage adaptations (Mary Poppins, the forthcoming Wind in the Willows); and, of course, the dreaded ITV series Downton Abbey, the daffiness of whose plots – a crippled heir who can walk again!

He worked on the manuscript for most of his career, always plotting its eventual publication, hoping, for example, that his conventionally structured novel "Salammbô," set in ancient Carthage, would prepare his readers for this other, weirder novel of antique North Africa.

The "Exordium" is like a weird little novel.

Villagers follow a charismatic leader in a pleasantly weird Hungarian novel originally published in 1985.

"That's weird" frames novel behaviors in negative and judgmental terms.

Lately I have been reading, in no particular order, Jamie McKendrick's fine new translation of Bassani's The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, Mark Mazower's great history of Salonica and Karel Capek's marvellously weird expressionist novel, The War with the Newts.