The Baroque Cycle, Stephenson's next novel, is a series of long historical novels set in the 17th and 18th centuries, and is in some respects a prequel to Cryptonomicon.

* Wilbur Smith: The Courtney and Ballentyne series and independent adventure novels set in Africa in between the 17th and 20th centuries and the Ancient Egypt series

From the 17th century to contemporary times, there has been a long tradition of works of art ( novels, dramas, operas, etc.

Jin Shengtan, who edited several novels in vernacular Chinese in the 17th century, is widely regarded as the pioneer of literature in the vernacular style.

He expended great effort, in all of his novels, on his characters ' dialogues and dialects, striving to recount realistically not only the ways, but also the tones and accents, in which thoughts and utterances were formed by the various sorts of people who lived in the Exmoor district in the 17th century.

Scudéry's novels are usually set in the classical world or the Orient, but their language and action reflect fashionable ideas of the 17th century, and the characters can be identified with Mademoiselle de Scudéry's contemporaries.

A new form of novels in verse evolved during the beginning of the 17th century when Ramachandra Pattanayaka wrote Haravali.

A new form of novels in verse evolved during the beginning of the 17th century when Ramachandra Pattanayaka wrote Haravali.

Laura Joh Rowland is a detective / mystery author best known for her series of mystery novels set in the late days of feudal Japan, mostly in Edo during the late 17th century.

By far the largest number of these tales were short stories, novellas, and novels of Cossacks wandering the Asian steppes during the late 16th and early 17th century, all but a half dozen featuring a set of allied characters.

None of these novels have been republished since the early 17th century, and they remain largely unknown today.

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked A Clockwork Orange 65th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

The 4-volume work was an imaginary travel journal, one of the first historical novels, which Klemperer called " the encyclopedia of the new cult of the antique " in the late 18th century.

In the early 20th century, numerous examples abound of heroes and heroines of pulp novels, paperbacks and comics depicted wielding two pistols, most notably the pulp hero, the Shadow.

The novels were written in the late 19th century, in collaboration with Colette ’ s first husband, Henry Gauthier-Villars, better known by his nom-de-plume Willy, who was also a writer.

" Cozy mysteries " began in the late 20th century as a reinvention of the Golden Age whodunnit ; these novels generally shy away from violence and suspense and frequently feature female amateur detectives.

It is written in the picaresco style of the late 16th century, and features reference other picaresque novels including Lazarillo de Tormes and The Golden Ass.

Category: Characters in American novels of the 20th century

The epistolary novel as a genre became popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson, with his immensely successful novels Pamela ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1749 ).

In the late 19th century, Bram Stoker released one of the most widely recognized and successful novels in the epistolary form to date, Dracula.

; Forgotten Futures VII: Tsar Wars: Based on the late 19th century novels of George Griffith, Tsar Wars is a setting for the struggle between the anarchist Terror and the forces of oppression in the early 20th Century, and the return of the Tsar's heir to the utopia of 2030 AD.

Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century.

Together with undersea archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman has written three historical fiction novels: Wake of the Perdido Star ( 1999 ), a sea adventure of the 19th century, Justice for None ( 2004 ), a Depression-era tale of murder, and Escape from Andersonville ( 2008 ) about a prison escape during the Civil War.

In the 20th century she was championed by a new breed of critics, most notably by Virginia Woolf, who called Middlemarch " one of the few English novels written for grown-up people ".

In the latter half of the 20th century, the influence of the romance tradition of Arthur continued, through novels such as T. H. White's The Once and Future King ( 1958 ) and Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon ( 1982 ) in addition to comic strips such as Prince Valiant ( from 1937 onward ).

Freemasonic writers added their own speculations in the 19th century, and further fictional embellishments have been added in popular novels such as Ivanhoe, Foucault's Pendulum, The Lost symbol, and The Da Vinci Code ; modern movies such as National Treasure and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ; and video games such as Assassin's Creed and Broken Sword.

Kit Carson is included in a number of 20th century novels and pulp magazine stories: Comanche Chaser by Dane Coolidge, On Sweet Water Trail by Sabra Conner, On to Oregon by H. W. Morrow, The Pioneers by C. R. Cooper, The Long Trail by J. Allan Dunn and Peltry by A. D. H. Smith.

Category: Characters in British novels of the 20th century

Italo Calvino referred to Tristram Shandy as the " undoubted progenitor of all avant-garde novels of our century.

Pulps were the successor to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short fiction magazines of the 19th century.

The American Old West was a mainstay genre of early turn of the 19th to 20th century novels as well as later pulp magazines, and lasted longest of all the traditional pulps.

Jeff Riggenbach described The Moon is a Harsh Mistress as " unquestionably one of the three or four most influential libertarian novels of the last century " in the Mises Daily.

Category: Characters in British novels of the 20th century

There were also some Children's spy novels made in the 21st century about WW2 including Henderson's Boys which was a spin off CHERUB, the same thing but based in the present day.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, Bar-Kochba has been the subject of numerous works of art ( dramas, operas, novels, etc.

The novelist Per Anders Fogelström ( 1917 – 1998 ) wrote a popular series of historical novels depicting life in Stockholm from the 19th to the mid-20th century.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

In French, Italian, Spanish and German, alternate history novels are called uchronie.

The Claudine books are a series of four early novels by the French author Colette published from 1900-1904.

Category: French philosophical novels

Aside from Eugene Onegin, Hofstadter has translated many other poems ( always respecting their formal constraints ), and two other novels ( in prose ): La Chamade ( That Mad Ache ) by French writer Françoise Sagan, and La Scoperta dell ' Alba ( The Discovery of Dawn ) by Walter Veltroni, the then head of the Partito Democratico in Italy.

Despite this preference for Anglophone works, he also read a number of French novels, such as General Dourakine, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later.

The second novel of this series, Therese and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel ( Thérèse et Pierrette à l ' école des Saints-Anges, 1980 ), was one of the novels chosen for inclusion in the French version of Canada Reads, Le combat des livres, broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2005, where it was championed by union activist Monique Simard.

Colonna's work was a great influence on the Franciscan monk François Rabelais, who in the 16th century, used Thélème, the French form of the word, as the name of a fictional Abbey in his novels, Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Category: French romance novels

She has been referenced in several historical novels, most notably in The French Lieutenant's Woman ( 1969 ) by John Fowles, who was critical of the fact that no British scientist had named a species after her in her lifetime.

* Pierre Loti ( 1850 – 1923 )-highly popular French writer, mostly on his Oriental travels & novels set as far away as Japan and Tahiti

His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled, La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon.

Category: French novels

Category: French novels adapted into films

Zola ’ s 20 Rougon-Macquart novels are a panoramic account of the Second French Empire.

Most of the Rougon-Macquart novels were written during the French Third Republic.

It has been remarked by Jacques Roubaud that these two novels draw words from two disjoint sets of the French language, and that a third novel would be possible, made from the words not used so far ( those containing both " e " and a vowel other than " e ").

Category: French erotic novels

Category: French novels

Clouseau's immense ego, eccentricity, embellished French accent and mustache were derived from Hercule Poirot, the famous fictional Belgian detective that featured in the novels of Agatha Christie.

In 1964 Dr. No was serialised in France Soir for the French market and the year marked the growth of sales in Bond novels for that market, with 480, 000 French-language copies of the six Bond novels being sold that year.

* Great French Romances ( 1946 ) novels by Madame De Lafayette, Choderlos De Laclos, the Abbe Prévost, Honoré de Balzac

His novels have been translated into German, Russian, Polish, Dutch, Czech, French, Spanish, Hebrew and Bulgarian.