The novel captures the atmosphere in a small town suddenly shaken by catastrophe.

His 1968 novel, The Crying Game, is set in London and captures some of the atmosphere of the ' Swinging Sixties '.

It is also a lively, comic novel that captures much of the reality of Mexico in 1816.

In the novel, Takuan captures Takezō and takes him to the regional Daimyō for punishment.

Some facets of Kerala life which the novel captures are communism, the caste system, and the Keralite Syrian Christian way of life.

Author and former local girl Kitty Aldridge captures the 1960s expansion of Widmer End in her 2007 novel Cryers Hill.

Timothy Brennan called the work " the most ambitious novel yet published to deal with the immigrant experience in Britain " that captures the immigrants ' dream-like disorientation and their process of " union-by-hybridization ".

Momba captures Dorothy and her companions, evoking the events in Baum's original novel, and is destroyed when Dorothy throws a bucket of water over her.

The novel captures McDermott attempts to deal with several crises in the hotel which involve a range of other characters.

From a technical standpoint, the novel is chiefly notable for the art with which it captures the lively dialogue of the Borstal inmates, with all the variety of the British Isles ' many subtly distinctive accents intact on the page.

The novel captures indigo planters, plantation life, and caste society in Bengal during the early part of the previous century in vivid detail.

How others in the novel relate to Roark demonstrates Rand's various archetypes of human character, all of which are variants between Roark, the author's ideal man of independent-mindedness and integrity, and what she described as the " second-handers ".

His lordship was concerned in the management of Drury Lane but, if there were no opportunities there, would he read and criticize her novel??

Here, in the most eagerly awaited novel of the season ( his first since The Catcher In The Rye, ) he tells of a college girl in flight from the life around her and the tart but sympathetic help she gets from her 25-year-old brother.

During these visits Shelley wrote the poem " Mont Blanc ", Byron wrote " The Prisoner of Chillon " and the dramatic poem Manfred, and Mary Shelley, who found the scenery overwhelming, conceived the idea for the novel Frankenstein in her villa on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of a thunderstorm.

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.

The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.

Christie wrote a concluding novel to her Marple series, Sleeping Murder, in 1940.

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

Their second was Louisa May, who fictionalized her experience with the family in her novel Little Women in 1868.

She later said her years at the home " were the happiest years " of her life ; many of the incidents in her novel Little Women ( 1868 ) are based on this period.

The episode at Blake Hall was so traumatic that she reproduced it in almost perfect detail in her novel, Agnes Grey.

Thorp Green appeared as Horton Lodge in her novel Agnes Grey.

The word ansible was coined by Ursula K. Le Guin in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World.

She also wrote the updated introduction to Sagan's book The Cosmic Connection, the epilogue of Billions and Billions, and her own novel, A Famous Broken Heart.

The line " There's this to say for blood and breath ,/ they give a man a taste for death " supplies the title for Peter O ' Donnell's 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for P. D. James ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh series.

Diana Paxson's novel Brisingamen features Freyja and her bracelet.

One of the viewpoint characters of Ian Watson's novel Oracle is an eyewitness to her defeat.

Daphne du Maurier, a former resident, chose Bolventor as the setting for her novel about Cornish smugglers titled Jamaica Inn.

Following the success of Jane Eyre, in 1848 Charlotte began work on the manuscript of her second novel, Shirley.

Charlotte's third published novel, the last to be published during her lifetime, was Villette, which came out in 1853.

The fragment of a new novel she had been working on in her last years has been twice completed by recent authors, the more famous version being Emma Brown: A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Brontë by Clare Boylan in 2003.

In her novel Brain Plague, Joan Slonczewski describes a species of intelligent microrganisms with arsenic based chemistries that live symbiotically with human hosts.

In his semi-autobiographical novel Typee, he reports seeing shrunken heads and having strong evidence that the tribal leaders ceremonially consumed the bodies of killed warriors of the neighboring tribe after a skirmish.

However sales of Jane Eyre continued to be strong, and may have increased as a result of the novel developing a reputation as an ' improper ' book.

As a satirical utopia, Erewhon has sometimes been compared to Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), a classic novel by Jonathan Swift ; the image of Utopia in this latter case also bears strong parallels with the self-view of the British Empire at the time.

In Brown's novel, it is hinted that Jesus was merely a mortal man with strong ideals, and that the Grail was long buried beneath Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, but that in recent decades its guardians had it relocated to a secret chamber embedded in the floor beneath the Inverted Pyramid near the Louvre Museum.

* The Virgin of Zesh ( 1953 )-Krishna novel noted for the early use ( for science fiction ) of a strong female protagonist and a possible influence on Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon

This was edited and changed by Heinlein's publishers, as was a discussion early in the novel in which MacRae expresses strong support for adults and older children being free to carry handguns, and opposition to any government which would restrict that.

It therefore has a strong overlap with solid-state physics, mineralogy, crystallography, ceramics, metallurgy, thermodynamics, materials science and electronics with a focus on the synthesis of novel materials and their characterization.

Luke and Mara develop a strong bond in Zahn's The Hand of Thrawn Duology ; he proposes marriage, and the two wed in Michael A. Stackpole's graphic novel Union.

Even though Stowe's novel differs from other sentimental novels by focusing on a large theme like slavery and by having a man as the main character, she still set out to elicit certain strong feelings from her readers.

A strong influence on the play is the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger.

Such elements include the essential idea of narrative structure, with identifiable beginnings, middles and endings, or exposition-development-climax-resolution-denouement, normally constructed into coherent plot lines ; a strong focus on temporality, which includes retention of the past, attention to present action, and protention / future anticipation ; a substantial focus on characters and characterization which is " arguably the most important single component of the novel "; a given heterogloss of different voices dialogically at play – " the sound of the human voice, or many voices, speaking in a variety of accents, rhythms and registers "; possesses a narrator or narrator-like voice, which by definition " addresses " and " interacts with " reading audiences ( see Reader Response theory ); communicates with a Wayne Booth-esque rhetorical thrust, a dialectic process of interpretation, which is at times beneath the surface, conditioning a plotted narrative, and other at other times much more visible, " arguing " for and against various positions ; relies substantially on now-standard aesthetic figuration, particularly including the use of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony ( see Hayden White, Metahistory for expansion of this idea ); is often enmeshed in intertextuality, with copious connections, references, allusions, similarities, parallels, etc.

The book became a success, but Céline was not awarded the Prix Goncourt, despite strong support ; the award went to Guy Mazeline's novel Les Loups ( The Wolves ).

After the film's release, certain publications, including Private Eye, noted strong similarities between the film and the 1941 novel No Bed for Bacon, by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, which also features Shakespeare falling in love and finding inspiration for his later plays.

In the science fiction novel Descent of Anansi, by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes, the main characters manage to land a damaged spacecraft on Earth with the aid of a very strong cable made of crystalline iron and the " force " generated by tidal effects.

Robert Tressell's popular novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is a strong example of the era's social critique.

This novel is more randomly plotted than its two predecessors, without a strong lead character or a fixed setting.

As recently as 2008, magical realism in literature has been defined as "... a kind of modern fiction in which fabulous and fantastical events are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains the ' reliable ' tone of objective realistic report, designating a tendency of the modern novel to reach beyond the confines of realism and draw upon the energies of fable, folk tale, and myth while maintaining a strong contemporary social relevance.

Known to be engaged in a testy relationship with General Secretary Jiang Zemin, under whom he served, Zhu provided a novel pragmatism and strong work ethic in the government and party leadership increasingly infested by corruption, and as a result gained great popularity with the Chinese public.

The novel You Can't Win by Jack Black had a strong influence on Burroughs.

Most historians nowadays regard Acts and Deeds as a versified historical novel, written at a time of strong anti-English sentiment in Scotland.

The town also has a strong literary tradition and has featured in literary works, television and cinema ; most famously in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula.

For instance, introductory chapters dwell extensively on bad writers and critics, quite unrelated to the plot but apologetic to the author and the novel itself ; and authorial commentary on several characters show strong opposition to Methodism, calling it fanatical, heretical, and implying association of hypocrites, such as the younger Blifil, with it.

This is a novel bound to arouse strong responses, to generate vehement discussion, and so not easily to be forgotten.

In Kerouac's popular novel On the Road, the orgone accumulator was treated more as another type of drug than as a medical device: primarily a stimulant, with strong sexual overtones.

The Grapes of Wrath, considered his masterpiece, is a strong, socially-oriented novel that tells the story of the Joads, a poor family from Oklahoma and their journey to California in search of a better life.