![]() ![]() McEwan made The Times' list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945." It is no wonder then that so many of his novels have been adapted into films, with still more in development. ![]() Both he and his work have won nearly every literary award, including the Man Booker Prize. In the last forty years, Ian McEwan has written some of Britain's most acclaimed novels. "Ian is someone who writes women incredibly skillfully," notes Ronan. Saoirse Ronan, who stars alongside Billy Howle, was thrilled to reunite with McEwan after having helped bring his novel Atonement to the screen a decade before. "He is so specific about character and place," Cooke explained. ![]() Director Dominic Cooke was so impressed with McEwan's adaptation that there was very little to do before filming. Traditionally McEwan has left the job of adaptation to others, joking, "In the time it takes me to write two screenplays that do not get made, I could have written two new novels." But the elegant way the book tells how an eventful wedding night in 1962 utterly changed the destinies of a newly married couple seem to translate perfectly into a screenplay. Even before the novel hit bookstores, film companies were interested in turning this story into a movie. After writing his novel On Chesil Beach in 2007, Ian McEwan did something he rarely does-he wrote the screenplay. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Publisher: Modern Library 2001 Author: Plutarch Translated by: John Dryden Volume: 1 Format: 816 pages, paperback ISBN: 9780375756764 The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition. ![]() Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. ![]() ![]() In addition to offering safe makeup formulations, the company promises to offer shades for every skin color. Backed by a large team of dermatologists, Cover FX works hard to ensure that its makeup products are never harmful to those suffering from skin irritation, acne, or other concerns.įor added safety, all of its formulas are created without harmful or toxic substances, such as parabens, talc, or mineral oil. The brand quickly became recognized for its inclusivity. The pair quickly realized that they could increase the accessibility of their formulations, so they established Cover FX in 2000. Victor would help Lee formulate cosmetics that were safe for people with different skin conditions. 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Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, swelling here, shrinking there, like some low but indestructible form of life. So abased, so monotonous is everything that meets the eye, that when the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash the excrescence back into the soil. The very wood seems made of mud, the inhabitants of mud moving. There is no painting and scarcely any carving in the bazaars. The zest for decoration stopped in the eighteenth century, nor was it ever democratic. Chandrapore was never large or beautiful, but two hundred years ago it lay on the road between Upper India, then imperial, and the sea, and the fine houses date from that period. The streets are mean, the temples ineffective, and though a few fine houses exist they are hidden away in gardens or down alleys whose filth deters all but the invited guest. ![]() There are no bathing-steps on the river front, as the Ganges happens not to be holy here indeed there is no river front, and bazaars shut out the wide and shifting panorama of the stream. Edged rather than washed by the river Ganges, it trails for a couple of miles along the bank, scarcely distinguishable from the rubbish it deposits so freely. ![]() EXCEPT for the Marabar Caves-and they are twenty miles off-the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary. ![]() |