Alessandro Manzoni's novel I Promessi Sposi portrays a pedantic scholar of the obsolete, Don Ferrante, as a great admirer of Cardano.

By contrast, the novel and anime series Yōtōden portrays Nobunaga as a literal demon posing as a power-mad warlord.

The historical novel Mayling ( 2012 ) by Dutch author Lucas Zandberg portrays the life of Madame Chiang from a first-person perspective.

The novelist Hilary Mantel portrays More as a religious and masochistic fanatic in her 2009 novel Wolf Hall.

Unusual for science fiction at the time, but quite typical of Heinlein's works, the novel portrays several competent and intelligent female characters.

Henty, a producer of the Boy's Own Paper fiction who wrote for that magazine, portrays the life of William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, The Black Douglas, and others, while dovetailing the events of his novel with historical fiction.

* Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ), a novel by Ray Bradbury, portrays a bookless future society, with omnipresent electronic media and wall-sized two-way home televisions.

* Although set in Philadelphia, Theodore Dreiser's 1912 novel The Financier portrays the nationwide impact the 1871 Chicago fire had on the stock markets and the financial world.

Melling portrays Ní Mháille in her novel The Summer King ( part two of the Chronicles of Faerie ) as a ghost who haunts Achill Island, and later as her live self when heroes Laurel and Ian go back in time to win her as an ally.

Elliott Baker's 1964 novel and 1966 film version, A Fine Madness, portrays the dehumanizing lobotomy of a womanizing, quarrelsome poet who in the end is just as aggressive as ever.

In Kenneth Gardner's award winning 2002 novel Rich Man's Coffin, he portrays the true story of a black American slave who escapes on a whaling ship to New Zealand to become chief of one of the cannibal Maori tribes.

Banks portrays the cult largely sympathetically, especially given its publication just after the Waco Siege in 1993 ( which Yolanda discusses within the novel ).

Set in the 80s and 90s zine heyday, Walking Man by Tim W. Brown is a comic novel written in the form of a scandalous tell-all biography that portrays the life and times of Brian Walker, publisher of the zine Walking Man, who rises from humble origins to become the most famous zinester in America.

* The novel for young adults called Battle Cry at Batoche, by B. J. Bayle, portrays the events of the North-West Resistance from a Métis person point of view.

* The novel Cleopatra's Heir by Gillian Bradshaw, portrays Caesarion as an epileptic ( like his father Julius Caesar ), who, after being wounded during an attack by Roman soldiers, is left for dead.

* In the 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Alan Moore, Richard Roxburgh portrays the main villain named the Fantom, whose true identity was eventually revealed to be Professor James Moriarty, who also posed as the League's recruiter M ; with a blackmailed Dorian Gray as his agent, Moriarty acquired samples from the League with the intention of duplicating their powers for his own goals.

* George Orwell's novel, 1984, portrays a fictional totalitarian surveillance society which has a very simple ( by today's standards ) mass surveillance system consisting of human operatives, informants, and two-way " telescreens " in people's homes.

* Wolf by the Ears ( 1991 ), a novel by Ann Rinaldi, portrays Sally Hemings ' relationship with Jefferson through the eyes of their daughter Harriett.

* Hungarian psychologist Péter Popper wrote a novel in 1997 Peloni or the Testament of Pilate in which Pilate portrays himself as a cultivated Roman bewildered by Judea and the Jews, who experienced some of the divine power of Jesus and executed him on Jesus's own impulse.

Jay Cantor's 2003 novel, Great Neck, portrays this era, with recently installed residents of all stripes trying to secure the brightest futures for their children.

The Coming Back ( 1933 ), another novel which portrays her, was written by Constance Malleson, one of Ottoline's many rivals for the affection of Bertrand Russell.

The graphic novel Welcome Back, Mr. Moto by Rafael Nieves and Tim Hamilton published by Moonstone Books in 2008 ( originally published in 2003 as a 3-issue comic book miniseries ) portrays Mr. Moto as an American of Japanese descent helping Japanese-American citizens after World War II.

The novel concerns a circus traveling through Europe at the close of the 1800s, and portrays Elisabeth's interest in circuses and daredevil riding.

* Ned Beauman's 2010 debut novel Boxer, Beetle portrays the Battle of Cable Street.

The Love Wife, her third novel, portrays an Asian American family with interracial parents and both biological and adopted children as " the new American family ".

Typically the system shows implicit context ( context was formerly assumed, and narrow ), lack of capacity ( e. g., low number of possible IDs, reflecting the outmoded narrow context ), lack of extensibility ( no features defined and reserved against future needs ), and lack of specificity and disambiguating capability ( related to the context shift, where longstanding uniqueness encounters novel nonuniqueness ).

Unlike a dissertation or master's thesis, they are not as long, they do not require a novel contribution to knowledge, or even a very narrow focus on a set subtopic.

Because of the nature of the graduate thesis or dissertation having to be more narrow and more novel, the result of original research, these usually have a smaller proportion of the work that is cited from other sources, though the fact that they are lengthier may mean they still have more total citations.

Waugh's police novel lacks " action " in the form of dangerous situations from which the characters can only make a narrow escape, but the book is nonetheless a page-turner of a novel, with all the suspense for the readers created through their being able to witness each and every step the police take in order to solve the crime.

When their would-be captor, Lucas Deranian, attempts to interrogate Father O ' Day ( who O ' Day earlier in the novel had likened to the devil ), the priest speaks to the effect that God is capable of creating many worlds and many peoples ; that there are " mysteries far beyond narrow dreaming ".

In the first novel, Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, Cats have slimmer faces, a narrow, flat nose, larger eyes and ears that are higher on the head.

The novel ends with Persse wondering " where in the small, narrow world he should begin to look for her.

Throughout the novel, Reg undergoes a transformation from narrow fundamentalist to a more open and loving human being.

Foster's tale has been read on the one hand as a “ novel for providing a subversive message about the ways in which the lives of women even of the elite are subject to narrow cultural constraints ” and, on the other hand, as an instructive novel that “ comes down on the side of the ideology of Republican motherhood and the women ’ s sphere, a sphere that celebrated those women who with appropriate sentiment and rationality accepted their “ place ” in the world.

No doubt the idea of the historical novel came to him from Sir Walter Scott, but Manzoni succeeded in something more than an historical novel in the narrow meaning of that word ; he created an eminently realistic work of art.

Almost a month later, on May 20, 2011, Martin further announced that after incorporating requested changes made by his book editor and her staff copy-editors, suggested final draft notes from trusted friends, and his own final " sweat " ( a line-by-line reread done to tighten and eliminate any unnecessary " fat " remaining in the manuscript ), that the final draft had been reduced to 1, 510 pages ; this made Dragons the second-longest novel, by a narrow margin, to volume three, A Storm of Swords.

Night Over Water is a politically minded novel written by author Ken Follett and published by William Morrow in 1991.

Named for the novel L ' Étranger by Albert Camus, the band played a politically minded brand of punk music that drew on both Clash influences and the band members ' social justice-oriented Roman Catholic faith.

Always literary minded, Davidar published short stories and poems in newspapers and literary magazines, before publishing his debut novel, The House of Blue Mangoes in 2002.

In the novel she is street wise and very strong minded, she wears street clothes including converse low-tops.

In the 12th century CE the Andalusian Muslim philosopher and novelist Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail ( known as " Abubacer " or " Ebn Tophail " in the West ) included the theory of tabula rasa as a thought experiment in his Arabic philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan in which he depicted the development of the mind of a feral child " from a tabula rasa to that of an adult, in complete isolation from society " on a desert island, through experience alone.

Garfield appointed Wallace to Turkey believing that the Muslim country would serve as a good background for a second popular novel.

In 2002, Mistry cancelled his United States book tour for his novel Family Matters ( 2002 ) because he and his wife were targeted by security agents at every airport he visited, apparently because Mistry appeared to be Muslim.

In the late 1990s the BBC was planning to film a five-part miniseries of the novel with Rahul Bose in the lead, but due to pressure from the Muslim community in Sri Lanka, the filming permit was revoked and the project was cancelled.

Shea went on to write historical action novels, including Shike ( 1981 ), a two-volume novel set in Ancient Japan about the warrior monk Jebu and his love Lady Shima Taniko, All Things Are Lights ( 1986 ), and The Saracen, a novel published in two volumes in 1989 depicting the struggle between a blond Muslim warrior called Daoud ibn Abdullah and his French crusader adversary Simon de Gobignon.

Some of the significant achievements of early Muslim philosophers included the development of a strict science of citation, the isnad or " backing "; the development of a method of open inquiry to disprove claims, the ijtihad, which could be generally applied to many types of questions ( although which to apply it to is an ethical question ); the willingness to both accept and challenge authority within the same process ; recognition that science and philosophy are both subordinate to morality, and that moral choices are prior to any investigation or concern with either ; the separation of theology ( kalam ) and law ( shariah ) during the early Abbasid period, a precursor to secularism ; the distinction between religion and philosophy, marking the beginning of secular thought ; the beginning of a peer review process ; early ideas on evolution ; the beginnings of the scientific method, an important contribution to the philosophy of science ; the introduction of temporal modal logic and inductive logic ; the beginning of social philosophy, including the formulation of theories on social cohesion and social conflict ; the beginning of the philosophy of history ; the development of the philosophical novel and the concepts of empiricism and tabula rasa ; and distinguishing between essence and existence.

He then took a house in Pentonville, where his eldest son, John Stuart Mill, was born in 1806. He had three big novel on the British history on ruling India. In which he told ancient period of India as Hindu and medieval period as Muslim and modern as British period.

These were novel not only with respect to earlier architecture of the region but in terms of the European architecture of the period, including that if Muslim Spain, which used wooden roofs.

In 2003, he received acclaim for his role in the French-language film adaptation of the novel Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran, as a Muslim Turkish merchant who becomes a father figure for a Jewish boy.

His first novel Timbuktun hetket (" Timbuktu Moments ", 1997 ) was an eerily prescient tale of a Muslim fundamentalist who is bankrolled by a businessman with ulterior motives to create havoc in order to destabilize an Arab nation's government.

Ahmad published a book called The Heavenly Decree, in which he challenged his opponents to a " spiritual duel " in which the question of whether someone was a Muslim or not would be settled by God based on the four criteria laid out in the Qur ' an, namely, that a perfect believer will frequently receive glad tidings from God, that he will be given awareness about hidden matters and events of the future from God, that most of his prayers will be fulfilled and that he will exceed others in understanding novel finer points, subtleties and deeper meanings of the Qur ' an.

The novel caused great controversy in the Muslim community for what some Muslims believed were blasphemous references.

The only nation with a predominantly Muslim population where the novel remains legal is Turkey.

Central figure in the novel is Jalal Pljevljak, who is the experienced driver and a Muslim believer, whose faith prohibits the consumption of alcohol, drunk, and so risked disaster.

As Portuguese hull design and construction methods are known to have been subsequently adopted by Eastern Muslim shipbuilders, it is assumed that this process also included the lateen rigging of the novel caravel.

His conquest of Egypt is a central theme of the novel, which gives a comic but detailed and revealing portrait of an Arab and Muslim society under occupation by a Christian western power.

The novel centers on the life of Dalia, a young Muslim woman living in Amman, Jordan.

The novel depicts the lives of a wide range of backgrounds, including Afro-Caribbean, Muslim, and Jewish.

In the novel, Calafia is a pagan who is convinced to raise an army of women warriors and sail away from California with a large flock of trained griffins so that she can join a Muslim battle against Christians who are defending Constantinople.

The novel Firdous e Bareen, written by Indian Muslim novelist Abdul Halim Sharar, gives a biographical account of Hassan, a youth lured and captured by Sabah's men and then forced into his assassination machinery.

The holiday's widespread appeal is in evidence in Meša Selimović's novel Death and the Dervish, where the pious Muslim protagonist views it as a dangerous pagan throwback, but where it is clearly celebrated by all ethnic groups in the unnamed city of its setting ( widely considered to be Sarajevo ).

Taheri emphasizes that the novel highlights that " Western civilisation and Islam have common enemies represented by ' vampires ' such as postmodernism in Europe and obscurantism in the Muslim world ".

He is currently writing a Muslim Steampunk novel imagined around Muslim geographer Al-Idrisi ’ s ( 1100 – 1166 ) alleged journey to England in the 12th century.