To the extent that the book can be said to possess a plot, this can be summarized as the story of the hapless Nikolai Apollonovich, a ne ' er-do-well who is caught up in revolutionary politics and assigned the task of assassinating a certain government official — his own father.

* When Jerry Seinfeld opens his apartment door to find his hapless friend George Costanza reading a self-help book ( I ’ m OK-You ’ re OK ), it confirms Jerry's opinion that his friend is a loser.

Feminism has driven the creation of a considerable body of action-oriented science fiction with female protagonists: Wonder Woman ( actually originally created in 1941 ) and The Bionic Woman during the time of the organized women's movement in the 1970s ; Terminator 2 and the Alien tetralogy in the 1980s ; and Xena, Warrior Princess, comic book character Red Sonja and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Despite the fact that Brite's first novel was criticized by some mainstream sources for allegedly " lack a moral center: neither terrifyingly malevolent supernatural creatures nor ( like Anne Rice's protagonists ) tortured souls torn between good and evil, these vampires simply add blood-drinking to the amoral panoply of drug abuse, problem drinking and empty sex practiced by their human counterparts ", many of these so-called " human counterparts " identified with the teen angst and goth music references therein, keeping the book in print.

With the proliferation of male protagonists in the spy fiction genre, writers and book packagers also started bringing out spy fiction with a female as the protagonist.

For the most part of the book, each chapter introduces a different denizen of the Wilderland, some helpful and friendly towards the protagonists, and others threatening or dangerous.

Earlier, some works were published which constituted " future history " in a more literal sense — i. e., stories or whole books purporting to be excerpts of a history book from the future and which are written in the form of a history book — i. e., having no personal protagonists but rather describing the development of nations and societies over decades and centuries.

Other references to Le Pétomane include Mel Brooks's 1974 film Blazing Saddles, Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True, the 1984 college romp film Up the Creek, directed by Robert Butler, in which the four protagonists represent Lepetomane University in an inter-collegiate river raft race, Kinky Friedman's 1999 novel Spanking Watson, and John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise.

The first sixth of the book relates the discussions between the protagonists justifying and plotting the revolution ; the next 25 % describes the year-long revolution itself.

The book proved so popular that the names of the two main protagonists have entered the language.

The book, more than any of the other Culture novels, focuses on the Culture's Minds as protagonists.

In her essay " What Nature Allows the Jealous Laws Forbid " literary critic Mary Aswell Doll compares the love between the two male protagonists of Annie Proulx ' book Brokeback Mountain ( 1997 ) with the love Myrrha has for her father in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

The town of Veere forms the setting for " Van Loon's Lives ", a book of contemporary fantasy written by Hendrik Willem Van Loon in 1942, in which the protagonists are able to magically summon the great men and women of history for weekend dinner parties, leading to often humorous incidents.

Although the protagonists in the novel were fictional, several historical figures, such as Andrew Mellon, Henry Clay Frick and Daniel Morrell were also depicted in the book.

* The Young Wizards series by Diane Duane-the protagonists live in Manhattan, New York, but each book in the series has a different setting ; settings include various planets within and outside of the Solar System and various alternate universes.

In Audrey Niffenegger's book The Time Traveler's Wife, one of the protagonists, Clare, grew up with her family in South Haven.

Some works were published which constituted " future history " in a more literal sense-i. e., stories or whole books purporting to be excerpts of a history book from the future and which are written in the form of a history book-i. e., having no personal protagonists but rather describing the development of nations and societies over decades and centuries.

The book switches between three protagonists, John Orr, Alex, and the Barbarian.

One of the novel's protagonists is writing a book entitled The Train to Cockfosters.

The book ( and especially the film adaptations and its second sequel, Summer Switch ) might be considered a modern retelling of Vice Versa, the 1882 novel by F. Anstey, in which the protagonists are a father and son.

A core rule book, simply titled The World of Darkness, has full rules for human characters and ghosts ; though it has no specific setting material, it establishes a tone and mood for games featuring human protagonists.

* In Issue # 22 of fantasy, western, horror comic book The Sixth Gun, one of the main protagonists, Drake Sinclair, is said to have trained with Mosby during the Civil War.

In the book series by Ridley Pearson, Kingdom Keepers, Maleficent appears as one of the first Overtakers the protagonists encounter as she intends to leave the confines of Disney World to take over the world.

Almost all of the main protagonists for each novel are introduced in the first book, La Fortune des Rougon.

The majority of Discworld Witches are seen in the Ramtops region of Discworld, and, barring the latest book in the Tiffany Aching series, the primary protagonists of the Witch books are from Lancre, a country in the Ramtops region.

Willard Thorp, in his new book, American Writing In The Twentieth Century, observes, quite validly it seems: `` Certain subjects are conspicuously absent or have been only lightly touched.

I know you are very busy now, you are writing a great deal & your book is coming out, isn't it??

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

and has then gone on to argue, with unimpeachable consistency, that all the obviously non-propagandistic aspects of the book are simply inadvertent `` contradictions ''.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

This brief resume hardly does the book justice, but I heartily recommend it to all those who are engages with the major problems of our time.

I mention these features of the book because they are inherent in the book's character and therefore must be mentioned.

Will it be short stories, fiction, nonfiction, biography, poetry, children's stories, or even a book if you are really ambitious??

Listed as newly wed in the Pasadena section of the new book are Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Moody Haskins 3.

This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.

`` I keep all these plays in this little black book, and I watch over a twelve-hour period to find out what numbers are repeating.

There are two things here about Surviving in the Wilderness, and a book called ' Tom Swift and His Speedy Canoe ' ; ;

In the book, he proposed and explained in detail a new theory of humankind: mankind as a " time-binding " class of life ( humans perform time binding by the transmission of knowledge and abstractions through time which are accreted in cultures ).

An author's book must earn out their advance before any further royalties are paid.

The characters in this book in particular are also based on archaeologists Christie knew from her personal experiences on excavations sites.

Among these are treatises such as the Shikand-gumanic Vichar by Mardan-Farrux Ohrmazddadan, selections of Denkard, Wizidagīhā-ī Zātspram (" Selections of Zātspram ") as well as older passages of the book Avesta, the Gathas which are attributed to Zarathustra himself and regarded as his " direct teachings ".

Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.

His principal sources are the Physics ( book 7 ), Metaphysics ( book 12 ), and the Pseudo-Aristotelian On the Universe.

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

Both books are most easily tied to the geography of the book.

Within this structure, the sub-points of the book are marked by a series of summary statements, or what one commentary calls a " progress report ".