Chimera is a 1972 fantasy novel written by American writer John Barth, composed of three loosely connected novellas. The novellas are Dunyazadiad, Perseid...
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Germany The Chimeras, 1854 sonnets by Gérard de Nerval Chimaira, a 2001 novel by Valerio Massimo Manfredi Chimera (Barth novel) (1972) Chimera (CrossGen)...
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co-recipient of the National Book Award in 1973 for his episodic novel Chimera. John Barth, called "Jack", was born in Cambridge, Maryland, on May 27, 1930...
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Award for Fiction with John Barth and Chimera, the first time the award was split, and the only one of Williams's four novels to receive significant acclaim...
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LETTERS (redirect from LETTERS: A Novel)
LETTERS is an epistolary novel by the American writer John Barth, published in 1979. It consists of a series of letters in which Barth and the characters of...
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Shirt of Nessus (section John Barth)
Barth. Written for the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins, which Barth himself later ran, The Shirt of Nessus is in the form of a short novel or...
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Lost in the Funhouse (category Works by John Barth)
Award (Barth would win the award for his next book, Chimera, in 1973). Among Barth's detractors, John Gardner wrote in On Moral Fiction that Barth's stories...
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Gravity's Rainbow (category 1973 American novels)
Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by the American writer Thomas Pynchon. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers...
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Maximalism (section Maximalist novels)
others, Thomas Pynchon and Barth himself, whose bulky books are in marked contrast with Barthelme's relatively thin novels and collections of short stories...
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its release, it shared the National Book Award for Fiction with Chimera by John Barth, the first time that the award was split. Williams retired from...
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Robert Langdon book series by Dan Brown John Barth in the Dunyazadiad segment of John Barth's novel Chimera. Rohan Kishibe in Diamond Is Unbreakable by...
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by P.B. Kerr Children of Blood and Bone series by Tomi Adeyemi Chimera by John Barth Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones Chronicles of an Age of...
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The Friend is a novel by American writer Sigrid Nunez published by Riverhead Books in 2018. The book concerns an unnamed novelist who adopts a Great Dane...
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Barnes, One for the Morning Glory Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot John Barth, Chimera; Coming Soon!!!; The Floating Opera; The Sot-Weed Factor; Lost in the...
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Historical fiction (redirect from Historical novel)
been questioned, as in Alexandre Dumas' 1845 novel Queen Margot. Postmodern novelists such as John Barth and Thomas Pynchon operate with even more freedom...
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self-published historical novel, Charles Babbage and the Countess (2007). "The Circuitous Journey of Consciousness in Barth’s Chimera" (1976) "Ethical Evolving...
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List of fiction set in ancient Greece (category Historical novels)
Yolen & Robert J. Harris, Odysseus in the Serpent Maze (2001) John Barth, Chimera (1972) Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (1993) Paul...
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the original on September 29, 2017. Harold Augenbraum (July 29, 2009). "Chimera". NBA Fiction Blog. Archived from the original on August 8, 2009. Harold...
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14, 2018. Retrieved March 18, 2018. Harold Augenbraum (July 29, 2009). "Chimera". NBA Fiction Blog. Archived from the original on August 8, 2009. "National...
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councillor Rita Chiarelli — blues singer Talia Chiarelli — gymnast Jason Chimera — ice hockey player Andy Chiodo — ice hockey player Juan Chioran — voice...
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"Dunyazadiad", one of a set of three novellas that make up Barth's fictional work Chimera, is a re-telling of the Scheherazade framing story in which...
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character as the narrator of the "Dunyazadiad" segment of John Barth's novel Chimera. Scheherazade's father, sometimes called Jafar (Persian: جعفر; Arabic:...
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Antiquitas Lost (category 2011 American novels)
Lost: The Last of the Shamalans is the debut novel of American author Robert Louis Smith. It is a fantasy novel that chronicles the adventures of an American...
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2014 the National Book Foundation named him a 5 under 35 honoree. His 2020 novel, Missionaries, was named as one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the...
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Historian Aristotle Kallis explained that anti-Serb prejudices were a "chimera" which emerged through living together in Yugoslavia with continuity with...
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all of them, and generally very pure; a geological chimera, and a myth or a little historical novel". In Cosmos, he wrote about how rich geological descriptions...
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appearing during the Middle Jurassic. Unlike most living chimaeras, Jurassic chimeras are often found in shallow water environments. The closely related Squaloraja...
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Suffolk, United Kingdom. She floated off and sank. Her crew were rescued. Chimera United Kingdom The ship struck a sunken rock off "Mosiltimo Island". She...
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