Although the novel's fantasy elements ( voodoo and black magic, tarot readings and precognition, ghosts and mysticism ) are secondary to the brutal murder that is the focus of the plot, it is set in the same milieu as Asprin's Griffen McCandles novels ( Dragons series ), Dragons Luck and Dragons Wild.

Although modern Japanese writers covered a wide variety of subjects, one particularly Japanese approach stressed their subjects ' inner lives, widening the earlier novel's preoccupation with the narrator's consciousness.

Although the novel's audacity seems very tame a century later, Ann Veronica was considered a scandalous work by many in its day and was denounced as " capable of poisoning the minds of those who read it " by The Spectator.

Although it was published anonymously, the novel's authorship became well known the following year, when her second novel, Phases of an Inferior Planet ( 1898 ), announced on its title page, “ by Ellen Glasgow, author of The Descendant .”

Although the newest pyramid is huge, black and flares at the top, that image is not related to the Luxor Las Vegas hotel, which was built in 1992, several years after the novel's publication.

Although Conroy drew on his experiences as a cadet at The Citadel, as well as stories from similar military schools during the 1960s to create the setting for the story, he has explicitly stated that the novel's plot and principal characters are a product of his imagination.

Although no record existed of Jackson's having visited there, it too became a popular tourist destination, a status continuing for years after the novel's publication.

* Poor Little Bitch Girl ( 2009 ) -- Although one of the novel's main characters originates from the Lucky Santangelo novels, and the core character of the series, Lucky, makes a brief appeance, Poor Little Bitch Girl is not considered to be a part of the series.

Although severely wounded, Book II survived the novel's events.

Although Dr. Watson appears only in the novel's 1912 bookend scenes, a significant sub-plot concerns Holmes ' efforts to ( temporarily ) replace the former with a young Parisian, who, while useful, is not nearly as brave or devoted as Holmes ' usual companion.

Although unsatisfied with the novel's " abrupt " conclusion, Richard A. Lupoff praised Triton as " a thoroughly absorbing, highly rewarding reading experience.

Although more than a century has passed since its publication, the novel's satirical observations of political and social life in Washington, D. C., remain pertinent.

Although the novel focuses on the relationships between the major characters, the shadow of creeping fascism, especially the racial laws that restricted Jews ' participation in Italian society, looms over all the novel's events.

Although the seduction is successful, things do not quite play out the way Ludvik expects ( this is the novel's third joke ), and he is left once more to sit and think bitter thoughts.

Although the TV series featured 3 episodes with other on-screen survivors from previously lost earth-flights, the novel's character Marjorie and the ships Anne and Marintha do not appear and are not mentioned in the series.

Although the film follows Shute's original novel closely, the film notably omits references to the supernatural that had been contained in the original novel, including the use of automatic writing to resolve a key element in the original novel's story.

Although Ageyev makes little explicit reference to the Russian Revolution of 1917, the novel's obsession with addictive forms of thinking finds resonance in the historical background, in which " our inborn feelings of humanity and justice " provoke " the cruelties and satanic transgressions committed in its name.

* Although the novel's chapters provide specific dates for all of the action, the later novel Halflife retcons the action to take place several centuries earlier in an attempt to make the lack of stable cloning technology more acceptable.

Although its author is unknown, its themes and subject matter are rooted in Germanic heroic poetry, in Anglo-Saxon tradition recited and cultivated by Old English poets called scops.

Although it is possible that a post-monarchic author assumed the persona of a monarchic prophet to add credibility to his message, there is no evidence to support such a claim.

Although no confirmation exists that these two ships were controlled by Teach and Bonnet, author Angus Konstam believes it very likely they were.

Although many assume that the biblical Mark the Cousin of Barnabas ( Colossians 4: 10 ) is the same as John Mark ( Acts 12: 12, 25 ; 13: 5, 13 ; 15: 37 ) and Mark the Evangelist, the traditionally believed author of the Gospel of Mark, according to Hippolytus of Rome, the three " Mark " s are distinct persons.

Although the Encyclopédie was Diderot's monumental piece, he was the author of many other works that sowed nearly every field of intellectual interest with new and creative ideas.

Although Tacitus is usually considered to be the most reliable author of this era, his views on Domitian are complicated by the fact that his father-in-law, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, may have been a personal enemy of the Emperor.

Although generally called a war novel, the author states that he " see The Time in Between as a war novel ".

Although the author of Hebrews was not directly influenced by Qumran's " Messiah of Aaron ," these and other conceptions did provide " a precedent ... to conceive Jesus similarly as a priest making atonement and eternal intercession in the heavenly sanctuary.

" Although the form is a feminine participle, virtually no scholars dispute that the author is a man.

Although the text identifies Peter as its author the language, dating, style, and structure of this letter has led many scholars to conclude that this letter is pseudonymous.

A poem in the Book of Leinster lists many of the Tuatha Dé, but ends " Although author enumerates them, he does not worship them ".

Although the very subject matter caused it to be considered scandalous at the time, its brief revival three decades later, in the open and radicalized culture of the late 1960s, when the author was approaching his 70th birthday, found the once-ahead-of-its-time work judged as a tame and dated period piece below Achard's usual literary standard.

Although searching Shakespeare's works for encrypted clues supposedly left by the true author is associated mainly with the Baconian theory, such arguments are commonly made by Oxfordians as well.

Although not directly comparable to SVG since it is a bitmap-based format, the Canvas element in HTML5 provides an approach to rendering dynamic graphics in HTML that is procedural rather than declarative: instead of specifying the shapes to draw in XML, the author executes drawing commands from a script.

Although he continued to be extremely popular and widely read, both at home and abroad, Scott's critical reputation declined in the last half of the nineteenth century as serious writers turned from romanticism to realism, and Scott began to be regarded as an author suitable for children.

Although 2 Peter internally purports to be a work of the apostle, most biblical scholars have concluded that Peter is not the author and consider the epistle pseudepigraphical.

A poem in the Book of Leinster lists many of them, but ends " Although author enumerates them, he does not worship them.

" Although Eusebius believed the Apostle wrote the Gospel and the epistles, it is likely that doubt about the fidelity of the author of 2 and 3 John was a factor in causing them to be disputed.

However, the heterozygous advantage hypothesis was proposed in one review in which the author himself writes, " Although cellular / molecular evidence presently is not available for this hypothesis, the CF mutation may be one of several mutations that have spread in European populations because they increased resistance to infectious diseases.

Although Seymour I. Rubinstein was the principal owner of the company, Rob Barnaby was the sole author of the early versions of the program ; starting with WordStar 4. 0, the program was built on new code written principally by Peter Mierau.

Although the book is an autobiography, Goodyear chose to write it in the third person, so that " the inventor " and " he " referred to in the text are the author.

Although William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were actors, the majority do not seem to have been performers, and no major author who came on to the scene after 1600 is known to have supplemented his income by acting.

Although this film is not in continuity with the later television series, in 1999, author Christopher Golden adapted Joss Whedon's original script into a comic book entitled " The Origin ", which Whedon later confirmed to be " pretty much " canonical.

Although well known in his own time, Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins ( an early editor of The Spanish Tragedy ) discovered that Kyd was named as its author by Thomas Heywood in his Apologie for Actors ( 1612 ).

Although he was writing decades later, he is the earliest author to describe the actual foundation of the Templar order.