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- 1 Who is the author of the famous book The Lion of beauty?
- 2 What is a Line of Beauty?
- 3 Is Alan Hollinghurst married?
- 4 What is Hogarth’s line of grace?
- 5 Where was the line of beauty filmed?
- 6 Is there a sequel to Line of Beauty?
- 7 What was the fastest selling book in children’s literature?
- 8 What are the names of Alan Hollinghurst’s books?
- 9 Where did Alan Hollinghurst study at Oxford University?
- 10 Who is Alan Hollinghurst’s partner in real life?
Alan Hollinghurst
The Line of Beauty/Authors
What is a Line of Beauty?
Line of beauty is a term and a theory in art or aesthetics used to describe an S-shaped curved line (a serpentine line) appearing within an object, as the boundary line of an object, or as a virtual boundary line formed by the composition of several objects.
When was the line of beauty first published?
2004
The Line of Beauty/Originally published
Is Alan Hollinghurst married?
In the late 1970s he became a lecturer at Magdalen College, and then at Somerville and at Corpus Christi. In 1981 he moved on to lecture at University College London, and in 1982 he joined The Times Literary Supplement, where he was the paper’s deputy editor from 1985 to 1990. Hollinghurst is gay and lives in London.
What is Hogarth’s line of grace?
serpentine line
The waving line is the “line of beauty” and the serpentine line is the “line of grace”. These two lines are the lines most varied in form, and they contribute most to producing beauty.
What is the serpentine line?
Queue theorists have calculated that if you have a single winding line, called a serpentine line, instead of multiple checkout areas, where customers can be sent to the next available register, wait times can be drastically reduced.
Where was the line of beauty filmed?
“We filmed in a real communal gardens [in Notting Hill], where the residents were really wonderful and co-operative, and there were little gems like recreating a whole section on the real Portobello Road. That was really exciting to set up and everybody was surprisingly helpful behind the scenes.”
Is there a sequel to Line of Beauty?
The Line of Beauty is not a sequel as such, but picks up where the earlier narrative broke off, in August 1983: “the last summer of its kind there was ever to be”.
Is Rainbow Milk autobiographical?
There is much to admire in Paul Mendez’ semi-autobiographical debut novel Rainbow Milk, a vibrant exploration of sexuality, race and religion set in the UK across generations.
What was the fastest selling book in children’s literature?
The Little Prince
The world’s most beloved children’s stories
| Rank | Book |
|---|---|
| 1. | The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince), Antoine de Saint-Exupry (1943) |
| 2. | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J. K. Rowling (1997) |
| 3. | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,Lewis Carroll (1865) |
| 4. | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis (1950) |
What are the names of Alan Hollinghurst’s books?
1 The Swimming-Pool Library, 1988 2 The Folding Star, 1994 3 The Spell, 1998 4 The Line of Beauty, 2004 5 The Stranger’s Child, 2011 6 The Sparsholt Affair, 2017
When did Alan Hollinghurst join the Times Literary Supplement?
In 1981 he joined The Times Literary Supplement and was the paper’s deputy editor from 1982 to 1995. He lives in London. Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist, and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.
Where did Alan Hollinghurst study at Oxford University?
Hollinghurst studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford, receiving a BA in 1975 and MLitt in 1979. His thesis was on the works of Ronald Firbank, E. M. Forster and L. P. Hartley, three gay writers.
Who is Alan Hollinghurst’s partner in real life?
Although he now lives with his partner Paul Mendez, Hollinghurst previously described: “I’m not at all easy to live with. I wish I could integrate writing into ordinary social life, but I don’t seem to be able to.