It was one of the most important novels of the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement in literature.
The full length novel was preceded (1937) by a short story with the same title, but with Parker Pyne as the detective.
A central event is Pilgrim's surviving the Allies' firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner-of-war.
Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered [novel] his first true novel, after he came to consider War and Peace to be more than a novel.
The author died less than four months after its publication.
The novel was originally conceived as a serial in the style of Charles Dickens' writings; it ran in 27 installments in Rolling Stone starting in 1984.
The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and 'firemen' burn any that are found.
It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the Palme d'Or, in the same year, and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film the following year.
In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio.
When the novel was first serialized in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, public prosecutors attacked the novel for obscenity.
The original Czech text was published the following year.
The story is told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical events as with historical fiction.
Its characters and events are loosely based on aspects of Eugenides' life and observations of his Greek heritage.
The novel was originally addressed to Steinbeck's young sons, Thom and John (then 6½ and 4½ years old, respectively).
Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in France in 1823.
He escapes from there and travels to London, where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin.
The novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891, but during the 20th century its reputation as a Great American Novel was established.
Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the plot of [novel] is secondary to its philosophical introspection.
It has been claimed to depict the decadence of the French aristocracy shortly before the French Revolution, thereby exposing the perversions of the so-called Ancien Régime.
The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.
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