sentences:  In 1974, Snow's novel "In Their Wisdom" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.In "The Realists", an examination of the work of eight novelists – Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Benito Pérez Galdós, Henry James and Marcel Proust – Snow makes a robust defence of the realistic novel.The storyline of his novel "The Search" is referenced in Dorothy L. Sayers's "Gaudy Night" and is used to help elicit the criminal's motive.