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The novel concerns the relationship between two fictional Victorian poets, Randolph Henry Ash ( whose life and work are loosely based on those of the English poet Robert Browning, or Alfred Tennyson, whose work is more consonant with the themes that are portrayed as Ash, as well as his being poet-laureate to Queen Victoria ) and Christabel LaMotte ( similarly based on Christina Rossetti ), as revealed to present day academics Roland Michell and Maud Bailey.
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With such purpose, this novel concerns a dejected researcher ( Roquentin ) in a town similar to Le Havre who becomes starkly conscious of the fact that inanimate objects and situations remain absolutely indifferent to his existence.
This novel concerns a young man who is accidentally changed into a donkey.
Shards of Honor and Barrayar concern Miles ' parents, while " Dreamweaver ’ s Dilemma " concerns a distant ancestor of Cordelia Naismith, Ethan of Athos involves a few minor characters from other Vorkosigan novels, and Falling Free does not involve Miles or any of his family, though in a later novel, Miles encounters the descendants of the characters from Falling Free.
Neither novel attracted much critical attention on first publication, but showcased concerns that Stephenson would further develop in his later work.
The novel epitomizes many of Dick's themes with its concerns about the nature of reality and ordinary people in ordinary lives having the world unravel around them.
When he rewrote Radio Free Albemuth as VALIS beforehand, Dick incorporated the plotline of Radio Free Albemuth as a backdrop film ( also titled VALIS ) that recapitulated the central theological and existential concerns of his novel as a mise en abyme-that is, a miniature copy of his central preoccupations at this stage of his literary career, common to both works.
Apocalyptic fiction generally concerns the disaster itself and the direct aftermath, while post-apocalyptic can deal with anything from the near aftermath ( as in Cormac McCarthy's The Road ) to 375 years in the future ( as in By The Waters of Babylon ) to hundreds or thousands of years in the future, as in Russell Hoban's novel Riddley Walker and Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Other themes dealt with in the novel are concerns for the environment and " human stupidity and the delusional belief in human superiority ", both frequent topics in New Wave SF.
* John Masters ' 1952 novel The Deceivers concerns the fight to suppress Thuggee, with a leading character partly based on William Sleeman.
The novel concerns Lucien de Rubempré, a young poet trying to make a name for himself, who becomes trapped in the morass of society's darkest contradictions.
In a modern context it can be seen as presenting an early example of animal rights concerns, especially in Gulliver's account of how horses are cruelly treated in his society and the reversal of roles, and a possible inspiration for Pierre Boulle's novel Planet of the Apes.
Books for younger readers both have historical settings: Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door ( 1998 ) ( grades 4-6 ) is set in 1777 ; and Beth Kanell's young adult novel, The Darkness Under the Water ( 2008 ), concerns a young Abenaki-French Canadian girl during the time of the Vermont Eugenics Project, 1931-1936.
* The 1839 novel by Honoré de Balzac, Pierre Grassou, concerns an artist who lives off forgeries.
* The 1972 novel by Irving Wallace, The Word concerns archaeological forgery, the finding and translation of a supposed lost gospel by James the Just, close relative of Jesus Christ, as part of a large project to be published as a new Bible that would inspire a Christian revival, but which is possibly a forged document.
The Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal character in 10th century Iceland.
Much of the novel concerns Sharrow's adventures in searching for and acquiring it.
** Joseph O ' Connor's novel Star of the Sea – where one section concerns a character's imprisonment and subsequent escape from Newgate.
The storyline concerns the contest between Ransom and Olive for Verena's allegiance and affection, though the novel also includes a wide panorama of political activists, newspaper people, and quirky eccentrics.
The events of the play broadly mirror those of the novel and give the main character, Oedipa, a greater context with which to consider her predicament ; the play concerns a feud between two rival mail distribution companies, which appears to be on-going to the present day, and in which, if this is the case, Oedipa has found herself involved.
The novel depicts concerns other than the strictly academic influencing the decisions of supposedly objective scholars.
Her novel Devil Water concerns James, the luckless Earl of Derwentwater and his involvement with the Jacobite rising of 1715.
The C. S. Forester novel Death to the French ( 1932 ) concerns a private in a British Rifle Regiment who is cut off from his unit and joins a group of Portuguese guerrillas.
The novel Unity, by Michael Arditti, concerns the making of a film about Mitford's life.
The novel concerns a circus traveling through Europe at the close of the 1800s, and portrays Elisabeth's interest in circuses and daredevil riding.
This concept features prominently in Arthur C. Clarke's 1972 award-winning novel Rendezvous With Rama ; his story concerns an interstellar spacecraft that uses the Sun to perform this sort of maneuver ( and in the process unnecessarily alarms many nervous humans ).
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* The epistolary novel Ides of March by Thornton Wilder centers on Julius Caesar, but prominently features Catullus, his poetry, his relationship ( and correspondence ) with Clodia, correspondence from his family and a description of his death.
The novel provides motivation and backstory to Snake and Hauk — both disillusioned war veterans — deepening their relationship that was only hinted at it in the film.
Admiring of Radiguet's great literary talent, Cocteau promoted his friend's works in his artistic circle and arranged for the publication by Grasset of Le Diable au corps ( a largely autobiographical story of an adulterous relationship between a married woman and a younger man ), exerting his influence to have the novel awarded the " Nouveau Monde " literary prize.
* 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses ; this date is now traditionally called " Bloomsday ".
He also pursued an unconsummated romantic attachment with the 25-year-old Sophie d ' Houdetot, which partly inspired his epistolary novel, Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse ( also based on memories of his idyllic youthful relationship with Mme de Warens ).
The novel focuses on the relationship between Whale and a fictional gardener named Clayton Boone.
" Wollstonecraft's first novel Mary: A Fiction, in part, addressed her relationship with Fanny Blood.
He is a character in Norah Lofts ' novel The Lute Player ( which focuses on his relationship with Berengaria of Navarre ).
The novel deals with the difficult relationship between the humans and the " piggies " ( or " pequeninos ", since the action is set in a Catholic Portuguese research installation ) and with Andrew's attempts to bring peace to a brilliant but troubled family whose history is intertwined with that of the pequeninos.
Also, the two mountains which form the entrance to Kukuana Land ( where the mines are located in the novel ) are referred to as ' Sheba's Breasts ' which could well be an allusion to the Queen of Sheba, with whom King Solomon had a relationship ; or alternatively Solomon's mother, who was named Bathsheba.
* In El crimen del Padre Amaro ( The Crime of Father Amaro ) ( 2002 ), a Mexican film ( script by Vicente Leñero, based on the homonymous novel written in 1875 by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz ) about a sexual relationship between a priest and a girl, father Amaro recites it to his lover during their nocturnal meetings.
* The Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 novel The Yearling, written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, was about a boy's relationship with a baby deer, later adapted to a children's film that was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Other anxieties about unstable identity appear throughout the novel: Robert's relationship with George has homosexual overtones, especially considered in light of his attraction to Clara, George's sister, who is described as looking identical to George.
Meursault and Thomas Perez – The relationship that Thomas has with Meursault's mother is one of the few in the novel that show a real emotional attachment.
The Manchester Guardians critic disagreed with part of Johnson's summary, saying that " to regard novel as necessarily being a sign of moral decay would be to oversimplify the relationship between literature and its audience.
The " tempestuous relationship with a wife who rejects the very values he holds most dear " was the basis of Irving Stone's biographical novel Adversary in the House.
The novel Imzadi takes place before the beginning of the series and explores the history of the relationship between the two characters.
This darker, slower-paced, apocalyptic novel explores the pre-and post-war lives of some of the major characters in Catch-22, with particular emphasis on the relationship between Yossarian and tailgunner Sammy Singer.
A historical novel about Brooke and his relationship with a Tahitian woman, Taatamata, in 1913 – 14 and with Nell Golightly a maid where he was living.
* In the novel " Faust Among Equals " by Tom Holt, the relationship between Faust and Helen of Troy is a central theme.
The novel takes as its subject the relationship between East and West, seen through the lens of India in the later days of the British Raj.
His posthumous novel Maurice explores the possibility of class reconciliation as one facet of a homosexual relationship.
Wouk's novel goes into much greater detail about Ensign Keith's experiences in midshipman school and in his early relationship with his girlfriend May Wynn.
The relationship between Crates and Hipparchia became the subject of a number of fictional accounts, such as the play Spozalizio d ' Ipparchia filosofa, wrote by Italian nun Clemenza Ninci in the 17th century, or Christoph Martin Wieland's novel Krates und Hipparchia ( 1804 ).
In Victor Hugo's novel " Les Misérables ", the relationship between Enjolras and Grantaire is compared to that of Pylades and Orestes.
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