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

* Henry is a prominent character in Sharon Kay Penman's historical novel Falls the Shadow ; his portrayal is very close to most historical descriptions of him as weak and vacillating.

This time is chronicled in the novel Cain's Book, which at the time became something of a sensation, being an honest study of heroin addiction with descriptions of sex and drug use that got it banned in Britain, where the book was the subject of an obscenity trial ; in America, however, it received favourable reviews.

" The novel is also notable for a number of incidental descriptions of other cults or groups, such as the Reformed Distributed Republic, which in contrast to the more elaborate " phyles " impose a minimal social protocol.

This novel contains detailed descriptions of the life of nomadic Scythians around 700 BC.

Furthermore, much of the appeal of Defoe's novel is the detailed and captivating account of Crusoe's thoughts, occupations and activities which goes far beyond that of Rogers ' basic descriptions of Selkirk, which account for only a few pages.

Set from late 1925 to late 1927, the novel includes detailed descriptions of Sam and Fran's tours across Europe.

When Chandler merged his stories into a novel he spent more effort on expanding descriptions of people, places, and Marlowe's thought processes than getting every detail of the plot perfectly consistent.

Trout acts as the mysterious science fiction writer who enhances the moral of the novel through plot descriptions of his stories.

Other People: A Mystery Story ( 1981 ), about a young woman coming out of a coma, was a transitional novel in that it was the first of Amis's to show authorial intervention in the narrative voice, and highly artificed language in the heroine's descriptions of everyday objects, which was said to be influenced by his contemporary Craig Raine's " Martian " school of poetry.

The 1901 coming-of-age historical fiction novel " The Bears of Blue River " by Indianapolis's Charles Major is set in present-day Shelbyville and according to Major's descriptions in the text occurred near the now-aptly named Bear Chase Golf Club.

In an essay specifically explaining this scene, Andrew Bernstein wrote that although there is much " confusion " about it, the descriptions in the novel provide " conclusive " evidence that " Dominique feels an overwhelming attraction to Roark " and " desires desperately to sleep with " him.

The novel also contains detailed descriptions of the wetlands in the " Dismal Swamp " and is therefore also interesting in the context of the way in which African Americans relate to the natural environment.

At least two outlines for the unwritten novel were published posthumously, and descriptions have appeared in several interviews and letters.

There is an underlying homosexual flavour to the novel, with vivid descriptions of boys as magnificent creatures, God's highest form of creation and Britain's greatest accomplishment.

The novel Seven Days in May mentions a facility called Mount Thunder, a reference to Mount Weather, but the road descriptions in the book make it quite clear that it is the same facility.

The first was Massachusetts, whose attorney general cited 70 references to sexual intercourse, 39 illegitimate pregnancies, 7 abortions, and " 10 descriptions of women undressing in front of men " as reasons for banning the novel.

The first was Massachusetts, whose attorney general cited 70 references to sexual intercourse, 39 illegitimate pregnancies, 7 abortions, and " 10 descriptions of women undressing in front of men " as reasons for banning the novel.

D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover was a scandal at the time because of its explicit descriptions of sex.

In 1907, the new owner John D. Spreckels remodeled the house to more closely match descriptions in the novel.

Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beauty's life containing a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses, with Sewell's detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behaviour lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude.

Robert Armitage Sterndale, from whom Kipling derived most of his knowledge of Indian fauna, used the Hindi word " Bhalu " for several bear species, though Daniel Karlin, who edited the Penguin reissue of The Jungle Book in 1989, states that, with the exception of colour, Kipling's descriptions of Baloo are consistent with the sloth bear, as brown bears and Asian black bears do not occur in the Seoni area where the novel takes place.

The jacket itself was actually used at San Quentin at the time and Jack London's descriptions of it were based on interviews with a former convict named Ed Morrell, which is also the name of a character in the novel.

The triffid design differs from the descriptions given in the original novel ; rather than walking on three blunt stumps, the triffids drag themselves with prehensile roots which are also used to constrict prey.

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The descriptions of Carmilla and the character of Lucy in Dracula are similar, and have become archetypes for the appearance of the waif-like victims and seducers in vampire stories as being tall, slender, languid, and with large eyes, full lips and soft voices.

* The character of Camille in Cassandra Claire's Mortal Instruments series may be based on Carmilla, given the similarity in their names and descriptions.

For example, one character creation method encourages players to first write prose descriptions of their characters and then translate those into Fudge Traits.

All names and character descriptions are taken from the published script.

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Groups throughout Scotland engaged him to make recitations from his work ; contemporary descriptions of these performances indicate that many listeners were appreciating McGonagall's skill as a comic music hall character, and his readings may be considered a form of performance art.

Jardine's strength and character were brought to light with descriptions from both John Abel Smith and James Matheson.

Surviving scenarios from the Renaissance contain little other than character names, brief descriptions of action, and references to specific lazzi with no further explanation.

( Although, white wines can be made from red or dark-skinned grapes ) ruling out the use of dark-skinned grapes such as Syrah, and no known descriptions of this wine's taste and character indicate any similarity whatsoever with red wines from the Rhône.

Screenwriters consulting American works to build the character Tavington based on Tarleton would have commonly found descriptions of him as barbaric and accounts of his name being used for recruiting and motivation during the Revolutionary War itself, even if those accounts were fiction.

* Official Crisis on Infinite Earths Cross-Over Index ( July 1986 ) was released as a one-shot publication providing summaries of every comic book issue connected to the Crisis storyline, descriptions of alternative Earths, and a list of every character that appeared in the Crisis series.

In this book, Rabelais sings the praises of the wines from his hometown of Chinon through vivid descriptions of the " eat, drink and be merry " lifestyle of the main character, Pantagruel, and his friends.

As John William Cousin argues, he depends for his effects on striking situations and powerful descriptions, but has little humour or power of delineating character.

) Its story, which is set in 1467, consists of precious and elaborate descriptions of scenes involving the title character, Poliphilo (" Friend of Many Things ", from Greek Polloi " Many " + Philos " Friend "), as he wanders a sort of bucolic-classical dreamland in search of his love Polia (" Many Things ").

Attributions of motives and descriptions of behaviour show wild variation and reveal much about the character of the teller.

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For example Lecoq's range of nervous system qualities, Decroux's rhythm and density within movement, Zeami Motokiyo's qualitative descriptions for character types, etc.

He wrote four volumes of autobiography to be published after his death, which markedly altered public perception of his character as they included his candid and malicious descriptions of others.

Moreover, the author spent a significant portion of his youth apprenticed to his father, experience that lent him the knowledge to write accurately about various details of the trade: from descriptions of the actual work, the physical toll it took on workers, the color and character of those workers, and the pride and satisfaction of a job well done.

Since the 1st edition, the Player's Handbook has contained tables and rules for creating characters, lists of the abilities of the different character classes, the properties and costs of equipment, descriptions of spells that magic-using character classes ( such as wizards or clerics ) can cast, and numerous other rules governing gameplay.