Manon () is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L ’ histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost.

In 2003, his novel A l ' image du dragon was freely adapted into an animated motion picture, The Rain Children, by Philippe Leclerc.

* Doomi Golo, novel in Wolof, éditions Papyrys, 2003 ( in French Les Petits de la guenon, éditions Philippe Rey, 2009 ).

Despite the time spent racing automobiles and producing the 1932 film Lac-aux-Dames, the first French " talkie " to gain international recognition ( adapted from a novel by Vicki Baum and directed by Marc Allegret, it had a script by Colette and starred Jean-Pierre Aumont and Simone Simon ), the energetic Philippe de Rothschild still devoted his energies and innovation to Château Mouton Rothschild in Pauillac.

* In March 2012, Frederic Lenormand, author of 18 Judge Dee's New Cases ( Fayard 2004-2011 ), published at Editions Philippe Picquier Un Thé chez Confucius ( A Tea with Confucius ), first novel of his new series, The Judge Bao Cases.

In the novel Sire, a French king is crowned in Reims in February 1999, the 18 year old Philippe Pharamond de Bourbon, a direct descendant of the last French kings.

The novel then goes on to show how Nana destroys every man who pursues her: Philippe Hugon, Georges ' brother, imprisoned after stealing from the army, his employer, for Nana ; Steiner, a wealthy banker who is ruined after hemorrhaging cash for Nana's decadence ; Georges Hugon, who was so captivated with her from the beginning that, when he realized he could not have her, stabs himself with scissors in anguish ; Vandeuvres, a wealthy owner of horses who burns himself in his barn after Nana ruins him financially ; Fauchery, a journalist and publisher who falls for Nana early on, writes a scathing article about her later, and falls for her again and is ruined financially ; and Count Muffat, whose faithfulness to Nana brings him back for humiliation after humiliation until he finds her in bed with his elderly father-in-law.

* Sylvie Miller & Philippe Ward's novel The Song of Montségur ( Le Chant de Montségur, 2001 ) pits the Roman Catholic Church against an ancient secret society of Nazis looking for the Holy Grail in Montségur.

Yet this motif appeared even earlier, in Marx's 1837 unpublished novel Scorpion and Felix, this time with a comparison between the first Napoleon and King Louis Philippe:

* In Philippe Curval's 1960 novel Les Fleurs de Vénus, Venus is a luxuriant ( but deadly toxic at night ) paradise inhabited by peaceful noble savages.

* Writing credits: Hermann Melville ( novel ) Philippe Ramos screenplay

It is based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Philippe Djian.

He has translated several books of French origin, including Virginie Despentes ' novel Baise Moi ( which was later adapted into a controversial film ); the writers Robbe-Grillet, Pierre Guyotat, Sollers, Benoît Duteurtre, Grégoire Bouillier, Philippe Djian, Martin Page and Nelly Arcan ; and, though it is quite far away from his usual subject matter, the autobiography of Céline Dion.

Extension du domaine de la lutte ( literal English translation: ' broadening the field of struggle '; published in English as Whatever ) is the debut novel of French writer, Michel Houellebecq, which was published in 1994 in France and in 1998 in the UK by Serpent's Tail, and released in 1999 as a film ( directed by and starring Philippe Harel ).

Philippe-Ignace-Francois Aubert de Gaspé, or simply Philippe Aubert de Gaspé ( 1814 – 7 March 1841 ) was a Canadian writer and is credited with writing the first French Canadian novel.

After his first novel A Strange Solitude ( 1958 ), hailed by François Mauriac and Louis Aragon, Sollers began, with The Park ( 1961 ) the experiments in narrative form that would lead to Event ( Drame, 1965 ) and Nombres ( 1968 ).

In The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a novel serialised in Fraser's in 1844, Thackeray explored the situation of an outsider trying to achieve status in high society, a theme which he developed more successfully in Vanity Fair with the character of Becky Sharp, the artist's daughter who rises nearly to the heights by manipulating the other characters.

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 downland to the south rises steeply out of the river valley providing scenic views, including Watership Down ( made famous by the novel of the same name ), Beacon Hill and Combe Gibbet.

With the opening of the novel, the island of Leshp, which had been submerged under the Circle Sea for centuries, rises to the surface.

* In the novel " Crush Depth " by Joe Buff, the Boer Empire rises again to ally with Germany and become the world's worst threat since the Cold War.

While the treatment frequently rises to high comedy, the novel is also an absorbing love story, and never loses its grip on the painful and complex realities of human relationships.

The novel revolves around young attorney Jennifer Parker, as she rises as a successful lawyer after being framed for threatening the chief witness against a Mafia boss by mistakenly giving him a dead canary with a broken neck which in turn leads to a situation that promises to break Her life's dreams.

Many people, however, became members of the French Resistance, and they are the allegorical equivalents of the voluntary sanitary teams in the novel, such as Tarrou, Rambert, and Grand, who fight back against the unspeakable evil ( the Nazi occupiers ).

* Absalom's attempted coup against his father David is explored in the novel " Zoheleth " by J Francis Hudson ( Lion Publishing 1994 ).

Additionally, in the alternate history novel Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove, Boudicca is the subject of a play written by William Shakespeare to incite the people of Britain to revolt against Spanish conquerors.

Helped considerably by the Soviet campaign against the novel, Doctor Zhivago became an instant sensation throughout the non-Communist world upon its release in November 1957.

The method combines amplification with a novel technology called Surround Optical Fiber Immunoassay ( SOFIA ) and some specific antibodies against PrP < sup > Sc </ sup >.

In that novel, Nichlas Haflinger designs and sets off a data-gathering worm in an act of revenge against the powerful men who run a national electronic information web that induces mass conformity.

The novel chronicles the continued struggles of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood against the violent Honored Matres, who are succeeding in their bid to seize control of the universe and destroy the factions and planets that oppose them.

He used this rather disparaging term in his 1830 novel Paul Clifford: He is certainly a man who bathes and ‘ lives cleanly ’, ( two especial charges preferred against him by Messrs. the Great Unwashed ).

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Percy Bysshe Shelley's first published work was the Gothic novel Zastrozzi ( 1810 ), about an outlaw obsessed with revenge against his father and half-brother.

* The 1965 novel Dune features such warfare as conducted against House Harkonnen by the nomadic Fremen tribe, led by Paul Atreides.

The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states, Georgia among them, have declared their secession from the United States ( the " Union ") and formed the Confederate States of America ( the " Confederacy "), after Abraham Lincoln was elected president with no ballots from ten Southern states where slavery was legal.

Not all his scientific romances ended in a happy Utopia, and in fact, Wells also wrote a dystopian novel, When the Sleeper Wakes ( 1899, rewritten as The Sleeper Awakes, 1910 ), which pictures a future society where the classes have become more and more separated, leading to a revolt of the masses against the rulers.

It may be classified as a specific sub-genre of Bildungsroman ; such a work, usually a novel, tends to depict the conflicts of a sensitive youth against the values of a bourgeois society of his or her time.

His next novel, Zodiac ( 1988 ), was a thriller following the exploits of a radical environmentalist protagonist in his struggle against corporate polluters.

In The Prince, the Discourses, and in the Life of Castruccio Castracani, he describes " prophets ," as he calls them, like Moses, Romulus, Cyrus the Great, and Theseus ( he treats pagan and Christian patriarchs in the same way ) as the greatest of new princes, the glorious and brutal founders of the most novel innovations in politics, and men whom Machiavelli assures us have always used a large amount of armed force and murder against their own people.

In the 1941 novel Sixth Column ( also known as The Day After Tomorrow ), a white resistance movement in the United States defends itself against an invasion by an Asian fascist state ( the " Pan-Asians ") using a " super-science " technology that allows ray weapons to be tuned to specific races.

Tales of my Landlord includes the now highly regarded novel Old Mortality set in 1679 – 89 against the backdrop of the ferocious anti-Covenanting campaign of the Tory aristocrat Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee ( called " Bluidy Clavers " by his opponents and Bonnie Dundee by his Tory friends ).

Bryce Courtenay's novel Jessica tells in the history a case brought in a New South Wales court against the Aboriginal Protection Board challenging the Aboriginal Protection Act of 1909 in order to return two children from Cootamundra Girls Home for Aboriginal children to the aboriginal mother.

Both are referenced in the novel as examples, in Nixon's case, of a failed attempt by organized crime to suborn the Presidency, and in the second, of the consequences of working against multinational commercial interests.

Whilst a laser on a weather-control satellite is able to supply heat, it is imperative to provide them with filter masks against the increasing carbon dioxide and also with food, air, and medical supplies ( a theme earlier explored in Clarke's novel The Sands of Mars ).

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 ).

* Poul Anderson's novel The Mother of the Kings is mainly concerned with the Norwegian King Erik Bloodaxe and his family, but a section takes place in Denmark, with a depiction of the young and ambitious Harald Bluetooth ruthlessly playing off various factions and Viking leaders against each other.

In Rosemary Sutcliff's 1965 novel The Mark of the Horse Lord the Dal Riada undergo an internal struggle for control of royal succession, and an external conflict to defend their frontiers against the Caledones.

Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the Bounty in 1789.