Examples of proofreaders in fiction include The History of the Siege of Lisbon ( Historia do Cerco de Lisboa ), a 1989 novel by Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, and the short story " Proofs " in George Steiner's Proofs and Three Parables ( 1992 ).

* History of a Troubled Love ( Historia de un Amor Turbio, novel 1908 )

* Linda 67: Historia de un crimen ( novel, 1995 )

He also published Polaroids ( short stories, 1991 ), Historia de Teller ( novel, 1992 ), Cortinas de Humo ( Smokescreens, 1995, in collaboration with American journalist Joe Goldman ), an investigation on the 1994 terrorist attack to the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association ( AMIA ), and Vuelta de página ( Turn of the Page, 1997 ), a collection of press articles written throughout his whole journalistic career.

* Historia de un otoño ( novel ) ( 1971 )

This episode was taken up by the modern Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel and made into the setting of his 2001 novel Le voyage de Candide à Istanbul.

He wrote the first important symphonic work in Chilean tradition, " La Muerte de Alcino ", a symphonic poem inspired by the novel of Pedro Prado.

* The 120 Days of Sodom, a novel by the Marquis de Sade, is replete with detailed descriptions of erotic sadomasochistic coprophagia.

(; ), fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (), is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes.

Sources for Don Quixote include the Castillian novel Amadis de Gaula, which had enjoyed great popularity throughout the 16th century.

He found a copy of Adrien Marie Legendre's Éléments de Géométrie, which it is said that he read " like a novel " and mastered at the first reading.

The first truly epistolary novel, the Spanish " Prison of Love " ( Cárcel de amor ) ( c. 1485 ) by Diego de San Pedro, belongs to a tradition of novels in which a large number of inserted letters already dominated the narrative.

Within the successive editions of Edmé Boursault's Letters of Respect, Gratitude and Love ( Lettres de respect, d ' obligation et d ' amour ) ( 1669 ), a group of letters written to a girl named Babet was expanded and became more and more distinct from the other letters, until it formed a small epistolary novel entitled Letters to Babet ( Lettres à Babet ).

In Honoré de Balzac's novel Letters of Two Brides, two women who became friends during their education at a convent correspond over a 17 year period, exchanging letters describing their lives.

In 1939, Nagib Mahfuz wrote the novel Khufu's Wisdom, which leans on the stories of Papyrus Westcar ; In 1997, French author Guy Brachet composed the novel series Le roman des pyramides, including five volumes, of which the first two ( Le temple soleil and Rêve de pierre ) are picking out Khufu and his tomb as a theme.

In 1944, he published his first novel, Les innocents de Paris (" The Innocent of Paris "), in Switzerland.

Contemporaneously to English Gothic, parallel Romantic literary movements developed in continental Europe: the roman noir (" black novel ") in France, by such writers as François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, Gaston Leroux, Baculard d ' Arnaud, and Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, Madame de Genlis and the Schauerroman (" shudder novel ") in Germany by such writers as Friedrich Schiller, author of The Ghost-Seer ( 1789 ) and Christian Heinrich Spiess, author of Das Petermännchen ( 1791 / 92 ).

Next important early Russian author is Nikolay Ivanovich Gnedich with his novel Don Corrado de Gerrera from 1803, which is set in Spain during the reign of Philip II.

This was mirrored later in the novel with Adeline hiding from the Marquis de Montalt and the secrets of the Marquis, which would eventually lead to his downfall and Adeline's salvation.

* La Galatea, a 16th century pastoral novel by Miguel de Cervantes

The Battle of Gallipoli features as a significant part of Louis de Bernières's novel Birds Without Wings.

In the early 20th century, the first monster appeared in a horror film: Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre-Dame, who had appeared in Victor Hugo's novel, Notre-Dame de Paris ( 1831 ).

He also pursued an unconsummated romantic attachment with the 25-year-old Sophie d ' Houdetot, which partly inspired his epistolary novel, Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse ( also based on memories of his idyllic youthful relationship with Mme de Warens ).

His work had also noticeable influence over Brazilian author Machado de Assis, who made exceptional ( and outstandingly original ) usage of the digressive technique in the masterful novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas.

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Nostromo is a 1904 novel by Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of " Costaguana ".

Conrad set his novel in the mining town of Sulaco, an imaginary port in the occidental region of the imaginary country of Costaguana.

* Andrew M. Greeley's 1985 novel Virgin and Martyr has much of the story set in the fictional country of Costaguana.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

A man in a novel who is defeated in his childhood and condemned by unconscious forces within him to tiredly repeat his earliest failure in love, only makes us a little weary of man ; ;

The tradition reached its apex, perhaps, in the works of Thomas Nelson Page toward the end of the century, and reappeared undiminished as late as 1934 in the best-selling novel So Red The Rose, by Stark Young.

In this novel arrangement the `` pill '' is much smaller and contains only a resonant circuit in which the capacitor is formed by a pressure-sensing transducer.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

Such associations suit well with the gothic or mystery-story aspects of Dickens' novel, but, on a deeper plane, they relate to the themes of sin, guilt, and pursuit that have recently been analyzed by other critics.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

Among the most noted recent works, there is the writer, the swallows of Kabul and the attack of Yasmina Khadra, the oath of barbarians of Boualem Sansal, memory of the flesh of Ahlam Mosteghanemi and the last novel by Assia Djebar nowhere in my father's House.

* Aliens ( 1902 novel ), by Mary Tappan Wright

* Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, 1969 novel by Vladimir Nabokov

The abbreviation " andy ", coined as a pejorative by writer Philip K. Dick in his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, has seen some further usage, such as within the TV series Total Recall 2070.

* Atlas Shrugged, a novel by Ayn Rand

* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

Northern ( and British ) readers recoiled in anger at the horrors of slavery through the novel and play Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin ( 1852 ) by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.

A special introduction written by Milne is included in some editions of Grahame's novel.

' This novel features sorcerers who become destroyed by forbidden knowledge and takes place in the Warhammer 40, 000 setting, itself utilizing Lovecraftian themes.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

* 1928 Alibi ( dramatised by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd )

* 2005 And Then There Were None ( dramatised by Kevin Elyot from the novel And Then There Were None )

La Peste ) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.

Oran and its environs were struck by disease multiple times before Camus published this novel.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.