* The Narrator: presents himself at the outset of the book as witness to the events and privy to documents, but does not identify himself with any character until the ending of the novel.

The novel thus appears to be told by an unnamed narrator who gathers information from what he has personally seen and heard regarding the epidemic, as well as from the diary of another character, Tarrou, who makes observations about the events he witnesses.

Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.

The novel describes the events of the reigns of Manuel I, Alexios II and Andronikos I through the eyes of Agnes.

The novel describes the events of the reigns of Manuel I, Alexios II and Andronikos I through the eyes of Agnes.

Terror Firma seemed to contradict the events of the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel War of the Daleks by John Peel, in which an unmerged Davros is placed on trial by the Dalek Prime, a combination of the Dalek Emperor and the Dalek Supreme.

Immersive virtual musical instruments, or immersive virtual instruments for music and sound aim to represent musical events and sound parameters in a virtual reality so that they can be perceived not only through auditory feedback but also visually in 3D and possibly through tactile as well as haptic feedback, allowing the development of novel interaction metaphors beyond manipulation such as prehension.

Francisco Madero, Porfirio Díaz, and other major figures and events of the Mexican Revolution are seen and experienced by the character of Frank Traverse in Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day.

* Dozens of fictional footnotes referencing events, books of magical scholarship, and biographies in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, the debut novel by Susanna Clarke.

* Stephen King's novel Carrie includes many excerpts from a fictional committee's findings on the events in the novel, as well as excerpts from a book on the events in the novel titled The Shadow Exploded.

* Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale closes with a chapter set at a conference taking place some time after the events of the rest of the book, in which scholars question the authenticity of the earlier manuscript.

* Each chapter in Frank Herbert's science fiction novels Whipping Star, The Dosadi Experiment, and Dune variously begin with an aphorism, an excerpt from an official report ( or even a manual ), a quotation from a book about the events of the novel, etc.

At the novel's end, the question of whether or not the Time Lords will be restored remains unanswered, although if the events of the novel are to tie in with later events in the TV series it must be assumed that Gallifrey was at some point restored, only to be destroyed again during the events of the Time War.

* The Great Auk is the subject of a novel, The Last Great Auk by Allen Eckert, which tells of the events leading to the extinction of the Great Auk as seen from the perspective of the last one alive.

She perceives and models reality according to the stereotypes and typical plot structures of the Gothic novel, leading to a series of absurd events culminating in catastrophe.

The novel sets up suspense for horrific events, which all have natural explanations.

The general political events depicted in the novel are relatively accurate ; the novel tells of the period just after King Richard's imprisonment in Austria following the Crusade and of his return to England after a ransom is paid.

The experts are thus forced to hypothesize sequences of events that have never occurred, probably never will -- but possibly might.

Here artistic realism involves the audience in an impassioned participation in events whose overtones and implications are transcendent.

Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.

Since we can neither undo nor redo the past, we are limited to the events of today and tomorrow.

These moments are historical events in the lives of individual authors with which the student of comparative literature must be frequently concerned.

In the summary of the principal events of the campaign compiled from the official records there are only ten days which show no fighting.

By a combination of music, lighting effects, and narration, famous events that have transpired in these locations are evoked and re-created for large audiences usually to considerable acclaim.

Many hours are given free by the Jaycees to make this and all local pageants outstanding events.

The movement of events is so fast, the pace so severe, that an attempt to peer into the future is essential if we are to think accurately about the present.

Throughout the year there are social events, such as picnics, breakfast hikes, canoe trips, banquets, and indoor parties.

The answers they give can often pave the way to performance increases and, quite often, are necessary for completing entry blanks for different events.

Being based on so few events, these results are of dubious validity.

There are a few prognoses of coming events.

The two events are taking place at the same time.

We leap from event to event -- including the formation of the posse -- even though the events, in `` reality '' are taking place not in sequence but simultaneously, and not near each other but at a considerable distance.

-- The performances of the Comedie Francaise are the most important recent events in the New York theater.

Specific events are dependent on threshold values for different tissues.

Endosymbiotic events are noted by dotted lines.

Amateur astronomy is usually associated with viewing the night sky when most celestial objects and events are visible, but sometimes amateur astronomers also operate during the day for events such as sunspots and solar eclipses.

The only mistakes she makes within the series are a typing error during the events of Hickory Dickory Dock and the mis-mailing of an electricity bill, although she was worried about strange events surrounding her sister at the time.

According to those beliefs events in our current life are consequences of actions taken in previous lives, or Karma.

Such processes are usually followed or preceded by events that do involve heat transfer ( i. e. are non-adiabatic ).

Joseph Curwen is the owner of a copy of the Necronomicon ( disguised as a book labelled Qanoon-e-Islam ) and there are hints of cult activities in a fishing village that refer obliquely to the events narrated in " The Festival ".

However, in the season 5 episode " The Fall of Centauri Prime ", Delenn ( while talking to Lennier about themselves drifting in hyperspace ) appears to refer obliquely to the events of this film by pondering, " Who knows what's out there ; maybe we'll find a million-year-old jumpgate left over by the First Ones.