In recounting this story of a ruler who becomes a reader, a monarch who'd rather write than reign, Mr. Bennett has written a captivating fairy tale.
Anyte's fame persisted, and Antipater of Thessalonica, writing during the reign of Augustus (27 bc ad 14), called her "a woman Homer" and placed her in a list of nine lyric poetesses.
Writing about the Reign of Terror, Hussey refers — more than once — to the new regime's quasi-executive organ, the Committee of Public Safety, in the plural, but there was only one such committee.
I was living in France during the last trimester of Marie-Hélène's reign, writing a book on that peculiarly French crossroads where wonderful food, a beautiful table freighted with family crystal and china, and the larger setting provided by some lovely antique demesne come together: l'art de recevoir.
John Leland, writing during the reign of King Henry VIII, described one such event: Chat Moss presented a significant challenge to the engineers constructing the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1826 because of the difficulty in providing a solid base for the track, in particular at a location known as Blackpool Hole.
The New Yorker, December 20 , 1999P. 99 BOOKS FROM OUR PAGES about "Love Trouble" (Mariner; $14) by Veronica Geng...With a head filled with everything from the cadences of the Times (she wrote the reigning parody of the paper's wedding announcements) to Mao's Little Red Book, she was a parodist of our public cliches and pomposities... View Article.
For the large part of modern civilisation, the written word reigned supreme as the only means of communication.
The Fault in Our Stars (2014) and Paper Towns (2015), both originally novels written by reigning young adult author John Green, feature white leading males who discover the meaning of life via their quirky, but beautiful, white dreamgirls.
