The novel covers the entire reign of Alexander III ( 1249 – 1286 ), " almost entirely from Alexander's viewpoint ".

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.

' The sentient ocean that covers much of the surface of Solaris in Stanislaw Lem's eponymous novel also seems, from much of the fictional research quoted and discussed in the book, to be based on some element other than carbon.

Defoe's next novel was Captain Singleton ( 1720 ), a bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy.

The latter novel covers events to 1093, ending with Malcolm's death.

In Dorothy L. Sayers's novel Gaudy Night, set in 1935, the main character Harriet Vane, a crime fiction writer, covers her investigation on a mystery case at her fictional Oxford college, Shrewsbury, with research on Sheridan Le Fanu.

In the David Weber science fiction novel Honor Among Enemies, main character Honor Harrington mentions that her uncle is a member of the SCA and that he taught her to shoot from the hip ( the time the SCA covers having been moved up to the 19th century in the future era in which the novel is set, to include cowboy and Civil War reenactors ).

It covers the years 1955 to 1962, as well as providing significant backstory for Michael Corleone's character prior to the events of the first novel.

The now out of print novel covers his supposed escape from the tower mixing fiction with factual names and events.

* University of Virginia Web site " Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive "— edited by Stephen Railton, covers 1830 to 1930, offering links to primary and bibliographic sources on the cultural background, various editions, and public reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel.

* The 1983 historical novel Dream West by western writer David Nevin covers the life, loves and times of Frémont.

* Keith Birdsong, illustrator known for his Star Trek novel covers

The novel covers events from 1396 to 1402, depicting " Scottish Clan feuds " and other disturbances in Robert III's reign.

The novel covers events from 1440 to 1452.

The novel covers their travels to foreign courts, including those of young Henry VI of England and René of Anjou.

" The novel faithfully covers Lawrence's life up to 1938 and takes it beyond, after her " supposed " suicide.

The 1939 film adaptation of the novel The Four Feathers is set in the time of this battle, and covers other aspects of the Sudan Campaign.

* Brian Aldiss, in his novel Hothouse, describes a future Earth where a single huge banyan covers half of the globe, because individual trees discover the ability to join together, as well as drop adventitious roots.

The novel covers great spans of time.

He is the hero of Luigi Gabotto's 1968 novel Corrado di Monferrato, which covers his whole career.

A fourth WWII novel, titled The Final Storm, covers the end of the war in the Pacific, and was released on May 17, 2011.

The fourth book, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, covers pixie Opal Koboi's second attempt at world domination, after her first unfruitful attempt in the second novel.

Though the novel is sparse in style, it covers a number of topics: personal shame, the subjugation of women, a changing country, animal rights, and romantic poetry and its symbolism.

Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective — Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté — who, first appearing in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose, predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.

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 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.

The novel was not published until shortly after Christie's death in 1976, some thirty-six years after it was originally written.

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.

Vinge's novel, A Deepness in the Sky ( 1999 ), is a prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep set 20, 000 years earlier and featuring Pham Nuwen.

* William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel The Night Land features the first example of what we now would call an arcology, though the future Earthlings depicted — millions of years into the future, in fact — have different reasons for building their metallic pyramid.

" Sean Connery is in the title role of a reclusive old man who 50 years earlier wrote a single novel that garnered the Pulitzer Prize.

" In the same article, the Reverend Al Sharpton ( whose fictional analogue in the novel is " Reverend Bacon ") asserts that " twenty years later, the cynicism of The Bonfire of the Vanities is as out of style as Tom Wolfe's wardrobe.

* The scene with Bruce Wayne returning from years of training abroad on board a plane reminisces the first page of the graphic novel.

* Kurtis Scaletta's 2009 children's novel, Mudville is about a town where it's been raining for 22 years, delaying a baseball game between two rival towns.

Stanisław Lem has also studied the same idea in his novel The Invincible ( 1964 ), in which the crew of a spacecraft landing on a distant planet finds non-biological life-form, which is the product of long, possibly of millions of years of mechanical evolution.

By 14 he had already written a short adventure novel called The Black Diamonds which was lost for years until published in 2002.

Another juvenile novel was written in his teenaged years — The Sword of Zagan ( unpublished until 2004 ).

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.

At the very end of the novel, where Superman stands poised to destroy the United Nations, Norman McCay makes him realise that, when he abandoned Clark Kent fifteen years ago after the murder of Lois Lane by the Joker and retreated into his Superman self, he lost this instinctive morality and thus the ability to be the hero Superman.

He wrote his first published novel, Eclipse ( 1935 ), about a town and its people, in the social realist style, drawing on his years in Grand Junction.

Although The Moonstone is usually seen as the first detective novel, a number of critics suggest that the lesser known Notting Hill Mystery ( 1862 – 63 ), written by the pseudonymous " Charles Felix ", preceded it by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre.

Alonso Quijano, the protagonist of the novel, is a retired country gentleman nearing fifty years of age, living in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and housekeeper.

Although the two parts are now normally published as a single work, Don Quixote, Part Two was a sequel published ten years after the original novel.

The first few chapters of the novel, dealing with the discovery of Erewhon, are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer on Mesopotamia Station for about four years ( 1860 – 1864 ) and explored parts of the interior of the South Island of which he wrote about in his A First Year in Canterbury Settlement ( 1863 ).

In 1959 Daphne Oram produced a novel method of synthesis, her " Oramics " technique, driven by drawings on a 35 mm film strip ; it was used for a number of years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.