melodramatic
101melodramatics — [mel΄ə drə mat′iks] pl.n. melodramatic behavior * * * mel·o·dra·mat·ics (mĕl ə drə mătʹĭks) n. 1. (used with a sing. verb) Melodramatic theatrical performance. 2. (used with a pl. verb) Exaggeratedly emotional behavior; histrionics. * * * …
102dime novel — a cheap melodramatic or sensational novel, usually in paperback and selling for ten cents, esp. such an adventure novel popular c1850 to c1920. [1860 65, Amer.] * * * ▪ literature a type of inexpensive, usually paperback, melodramatic novel …
103Ouida — /wee deuh/, n. 1. pen name of Louise de la Ramée. 2. a female given name. * * * orig. Maria Louise Ramé or Maria Louise de la Ramée born Jan. 1, 1839, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, Eng. died Jan. 25, 1908, Viareggio, Italy English novelist. Among… …
104Gérôme, Jean-Léon — born May 11, 1824, Vesoul, Fr. died Jan. 10, 1904, Paris French painter, sculptor, and teacher. Son of a goldsmith, he studied in Paris and painted melodramatic and often erotic historical and mythological compositions, excelling as a draftsman… …
105Hardy, Thomas — born June 2, 1840, Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, Eng. died Jan. 11, 1928, Dorchester, Dorset British novelist and poet. Son of a country stonemason and builder, he practiced architecture before beginning to write poetry, then prose. Many of his… …
106Pathé, Charles — born Dec. 25, 1863, Paris, France died Dec. 26, 1957, Monte Carlo, Mon. French film executive. In 1896 he and his brother Émile founded Pathé Frères, which distributed Thomas Alva Edison s Kinetoscope viewing device to French theatres. The firm… …
107Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi — ▪ 2008 born Sept. 15, 1977, Enugu, Nigeria In 2007 Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction for her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). The young novelist, who stated that she had been writing… …
108Hosseini, Khaled — ▪ 2008 born March 4, 1965, Kabul, Afg. In 2007 Khaled Hosseini published his second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, which quickly topped American and British best seller lists. His latest release did little, however, to dent the international… …
109Corelli, Marie — ▪ British author pseudonym of Mary Mackay born 1855, London, Eng. died April 21, 1924, Stratford upon Avon, Warwick best selling English author of more than 20 romantic melodramatic novels. Her first book, A Romance of Two Worlds… …
110French literature — Introduction the body of written works in the French language produced within the geographic and political boundaries of France. The French language was one of the five major Romance languages to develop from Vulgar Latin as a result of the …
