" Fortune " won the fiction category of the National Book Council Award, " The Bay of Contented Men " won a Commonwealth Writers ' Prize for the best book in Australasia and South-East Asia, and " The Drowner " made Australian literary history by becoming the first novel to win the Premier's Literary Prize in every State.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

A man in a novel who is defeated in his childhood and condemned by unconscious forces within him to tiredly repeat his earliest failure in love, only makes us a little weary of man ; ;

The tradition reached its apex, perhaps, in the works of Thomas Nelson Page toward the end of the century, and reappeared undiminished as late as 1934 in the best-selling novel So Red The Rose, by Stark Young.

In this novel arrangement the `` pill '' is much smaller and contains only a resonant circuit in which the capacitor is formed by a pressure-sensing transducer.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

Such associations suit well with the gothic or mystery-story aspects of Dickens' novel, but, on a deeper plane, they relate to the themes of sin, guilt, and pursuit that have recently been analyzed by other critics.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

Among the most noted recent works, there is the writer, the swallows of Kabul and the attack of Yasmina Khadra, the oath of barbarians of Boualem Sansal, memory of the flesh of Ahlam Mosteghanemi and the last novel by Assia Djebar nowhere in my father's House.

* Aliens ( 1902 novel ), by Mary Tappan Wright

* Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, 1969 novel by Vladimir Nabokov

The abbreviation " andy ", coined as a pejorative by writer Philip K. Dick in his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, has seen some further usage, such as within the TV series Total Recall 2070.

* Atlas Shrugged, a novel by Ayn Rand

* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

Northern ( and British ) readers recoiled in anger at the horrors of slavery through the novel and play Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin ( 1852 ) by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.

A special introduction written by Milne is included in some editions of Grahame's novel.

' This novel features sorcerers who become destroyed by forbidden knowledge and takes place in the Warhammer 40, 000 setting, itself utilizing Lovecraftian themes.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

* 1928 Alibi ( dramatised by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd )

* 2005 And Then There Were None ( dramatised by Kevin Elyot from the novel And Then There Were None )

La Peste ) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.

Oran and its environs were struck by disease multiple times before Camus published this novel.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

In Robert Heinlein's novel Glory Road, the hero, Scar Gordon, reads a book of magic by Albertus Magnus and comments on love magic involving a wolf's burned hair.

This novel is the first of a series of novels primarily about the life and times of Robert the Bruce however it covers Alexander III and the circumstances surrounding his death in some detail.

In Robert L. Forward's novel Timemaster, the wormhole is a living organism resembling a fourth-dimensional sea anemone, " stretched " to cover the distance between a spaceship and a satellite on the home planet.

On November 9, 2008, a radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, starring Robert Lonsdale as Paul Bäumer and Shannon Graney as Katczinsky.

An arcology is also depicted in the 1968 futuristic novel " The World Inside ", by Robert Silverberg, where in the year 2381 the human race lives in 1000-storey-high towers, providing everything necessary to the society ( nutrition, energy, entertainment, jobs, etc .).

* In the novel The World Inside by Robert Silverberg, everyone lives in ' Urban Monads ': self-contained three-kilometer-high hyperstructures.

* Robert Graves, author of I, Claudius, also wrote Count Belisarius, a historical novel about Belisarius.

In the novel I, Claudius by English writer Robert Graves, Caligula is presented as being a murderous sociopath from his childhood, who became clinically insane early in his reign.

He received accolades for his portrayal of Sydney Carton in a made for television version of A Tale of Two Cities ( 1980 ), co-starred with Dennis Hopper in The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), which was based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name, and co-starred with Goldie Hawn in Protocol ( 1984 ).

The team of screenwriters took the main suspect of the novel, Robert Tisdall, and his unexpected, initially reluctant supporter, Erica Burgoyne, and left out all the other characters, including Tey's Inspector Alan Grant and even the original murderer ( who is not the same character as in the film ).

* The novel Falstaff by Robert Nye.

* Farnham's Freehold, a novel written by Robert A. Heinlein in 1965

* In the timeline of Robert Heinlein's utopian novel For Us, the Living – written in 1939 but only published posthumously in 2003 – LaGuardia is elected President in 1951 and serves two terms as a militant reforming president, effectively nationalizing the banking system and instituting a system of Social Credit.

* Robert Graves ' novel I, Claudius is written as a recently-discovered autobiography penned by the late Emperor.

* Gulf ( novel ), a 1949 novel by Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Graves, in his historical novel I, Claudius, blames the death of Germanicus on Plancina, the wife of Piso, who engaged a witch named Martina to haunt Germanicus ' household.

* For Whom the Bell Tolls, an Ernest Hemingway novel which tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer attached to a guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War.

The BBC produced a feature-length television drama, All the King's Men ( not to be confused with the novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren ), that focused attention on a unit ( the " Sandringham Company ") that was decimated at Gallipoli and included men from King George V's estate at Sandringham House.

Robert A. Heinlein originally coined the term grok in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land as a Martian word that could not be defined in Earthling terms, but can be associated with various literal meanings such as " water ", " to drink ", " life ", or " to live ", and had a much more profound figurative meaning that is hard for terrestrial culture to understand because of its assumption of a singular reality.

The Innocents ( Jack Clayton, 1961 ) based on the Henry James novel The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting ( Robert Wise, 1963 ) are two such horror-of-the-demonic films from the early 1960s, both made in the UK by American studios.

" Samuel Butler argues, based on literary observations, that a young Sicilian woman wrote the Odyssey ( but not the Iliad ), an idea further pursued by Robert Graves in his novel Homer's Daughter and Andrew Dalby in Rediscovering Homer.

Black Sunday, based on author Thomas Harris's only non-Hannibal Lecter novel, involves an Israeli Mossad agent ( Robert Shaw ), chasing a Palestinian terrorist ( Marthe Keller ) and a disgruntled Vietnam vet ( Bruce Dern ), who plan to blow up the Goodyear blimp over the Super Bowl.

* The Robert Littell novel The Company ( 2002 ) features Philby as a confidant of former CIA Counter-Intelligence chief James Angleton.