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Others say James ascends from pulp fiction to high art, with well-drawn characters and turns of phrase "of which Jane Austen might have been proud" (Gerald Kaufman, the Daily Telegraph ). (An excerpt is available at Random House's site.)
Inside the park’s north gate is an even larger complex, the Temple of the Azure Clouds (Biyun Si), which ascends the hillside.
The daughter of the second wife of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and therefore dubbed a bastard by the papists, the Protestant Elizabeth ascends the throne to find the air still thick with smoke from roasted heretics, a team of skulking Catholics plotting her assassination, and a council of advisers (lords, bishops, sundry old boys) who snigger openly at the prospect of taking orders from a woman.
Upon his death, the pop artist ascends from the controversial to the canonical.
A tortuous side road 12 km (7 miles) east along the coast ascends the mountains to La Gran Piedra (Big Stone), where you can climb on foot for a bird’s-eye view of eastern Cuba.