Which preposition to use with novel

of Occurrences 592%

He should read the novels of Richter, Thackeray, Dickens, Scott, Eliot, and Victor Hugo.

in Occurrences 175%

The Ouzel's nest is one of the most extraordinary pieces of bird architecture I ever saw, odd and novel in design, perfectly fresh and beautiful, and in every way worthy of the genius of the little builder.

by Occurrences 140%

There is a novel by George Fidge entitled The English Gusman; or, The History of that Unparalleled Thief James Hind (1652, 4to).

to Occurrences 43%

Some of my American friends often came with true American curiosity, wanting to see a phase of French life which was quite novel to them.

from Occurrences 35%

That Thackeray has so emphasised his sketches of juvenile life, warrants the presentation of those sketches in this volume and as complete stories, without the adult intrigue and plot with which they are surrounded in the novels from which they are taken.

as Occurrences 33%

In a word, Romola is a great moral study and a very interesting book; but the characters are not Italian, and the novel as a whole lacks the strong reality which marks George Eliot's English studies.

about Occurrences 32%

" Candour (subacid virtue) compels me to set down that there was nothing very notable or novel about the manipulation, by Messrs. HORACE ANNESLEY VACHELL and THOMAS COBB, of the comedy of needless complications entitled Mrs. Pomeroy's Reputation.

with Occurrences 26%

Before either had time, however, to disburthen her mind of one half of its prepared phrases, ring upon ring proclaimed more company, and the rooms were soon as much sprinkled with talent, as a modern novel with jests.

for Occurrences 21%

"Yes, my dear, Free Trade; that is, while American publishers can steal foreign novels for nothing, they are not going to pay anything for native fiction.

on Occurrences 19%

If I could but calculate the precise date of his death, I would write a novel on purpose to make George the hero.

without Occurrences 13%

I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.

at Occurrences 13%

Of all the women writer's who have helped and are still helping to place our English novels at the head of the world's fiction, she holds at present unquestionably the highest rank.

than Occurrences 12%

The undertaking is indeed no less novel than arduous, since the author of it has to tread in paths which have been untrodden for upwards of a thousand years, and to bring to light truths which for that extended period have been concealed in Greek.

under Occurrences 8%

In this period the revolt against classicism is shown in the revival of romantic poetry under Gray, Collins, Burns, and Thomson, and in the beginning of the English novel under Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding.

into Occurrences 5%

They divide novels into two classes, stories and romances; the story being a form of the novel which relates certain incidents of life with as little complexity as possible; and the romance being a form of novel which describes life as led by strong emotions into complex and unusual circumstances.

after Occurrences 5%

It was his first novel after his American tour, and the storm of resentment that had hailed the appearance of "American Notes," in 1842, was intensified by his merciless satire of American characteristics and institutions in "Martin Chuzzlewit."

among Occurrences 4%

His chief end was to please and instruct at the same time, stimulating the mind through the imagination rather than the reason; so healthful that fastidious parents made an exception of his novels among all others that had ever been written, and encouraged the young to read them.

like Occurrences 3%

He could repeat long poems and essays after a single reading; he could quote not only passages but the greater part of many books, including Pilgrim's Progress, Paradise Lost, and various novels like Clarissa.

through Occurrences 3%

It was necessary to be very frequently, if not constantly, on the look-out for possible incidents of interest in a journey so utterly novel through regions which the telescope can but imperfectly explore.

per Occurrences 2%

During the seventeen years which followed the appearance of Waverley, Scott wrote on an average nearly two novels per year, creating an unusual number of characters and illustrating many periods of Scotch, English, and French history, from the time of the Crusades to the fall of the Stuarts.

before Occurrences 2%

The arbitress of the passions indeed wrote nothing to compare in popularity with "Robinson Crusoe," but before 1740 her "Love in Excess" ran through as many editions as "Moll Flanders" and its abridgments, while "Idalia: or, the Unfortunate Mistress" had been reprinted three times separately and twice with her collected novels before a reissue of Defoe's "Fortunate Mistress" was undertaken.

over Occurrences 1%

Shall I sit with a novel over the fire?

out Occurrences 1%

By-and-by, when Mrs. T. finds the glamour has fallen on her daughter, she wonders; she has "tried to keep novels out of the girl's way,where did she get these notions?" All prosaic, and all bitter, disenchanted people talk as if poets and novelists made romance.

between Occurrences 1%

Already at a very early age her mother used to say to those who laughed at the little romancer,"Let her alone; it is only when she is making her novels between four chairs that I can work in peace."

above Occurrences 1%

There is a vigour and an effect of personality in the writing that put this novel above the large class of the merely competent.

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