The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

He describes it in his novel, Les Misérables, as the language of the dark ; at one point, he says, " What is argot ; properly speaking?

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.

Ivinskaya describes Liubimov as, " a shrewd and enlightened person who understood very well that all the mudslinging and commotion over the novel would be forgotten, but that there would always be a Pasternak.

Nicholas Christopher wrote a literary novel called " The Bestiary " ( Dial, 2007 ) that describes a lonely young man's efforts to track down the world's most complete bestiary.

In the same novel Egan describes lifeforms in the 6-D ' macrosphere ' which use a collapsed atom chemistry with energetic processes of the same order as nuclear reactions, due to the peculiarities of higher dimensional physics.

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

In the 2002 novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the narrator and protagonist Lily describes a punishment her abusive father routinely inflicted on her: kneeling on grits.

Bestselling author Pat Conroy, in his preface to the novel, describes Mitchell's portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as having " the same romanticized role it had in The Birth of a Nation and appears to be a benign combination of the Elks Club and a men's equestrian society.

In notes to accompany his biographical novel A Man of Parts David Lodge describes how Wells came to regret his attitudes to the Jews as he became more aware of the extent of the Nazi atrocities.

Typee, Melville's first novel, describes a brief love affair with a beautiful native girl, Fayaway, who generally " wore the garb of Eden " and came to epitomize the guileless noble savage in the popular imagination.

* In John Steinbeck's novel The Winter of Our Discontent, the protagonist Ethan Hawley describes a mandrake root in his family's collection of curios collected on whaling voyages, "[...] We even had a mandrake root-a perfect little man, sprouted from the death-ejected sperm of a hanged man [...]".

In The Prince, the Discourses, and in the Life of Castruccio Castracani, he describes " prophets ," as he calls them, like Moses, Romulus, Cyrus the Great, and Theseus ( he treats pagan and Christian patriarchs in the same way ) as the greatest of new princes, the glorious and brutal founders of the most novel innovations in politics, and men whom Machiavelli assures us have always used a large amount of armed force and murder against their own people.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) produce a six-stage classification that describes the process by which a novel influenza virus moves from the first few infections in humans through to a pandemic.

His 1949 novel Space Cadet describes a future scenario where a military-controlled global government enforces world peace.

An early description of the roulette game in its current form is found in a French novel La Roulette, ou le Jour by Jaques Lablee, which describes a roulette wheel in the Palais Royal in Paris in 1796.

This novel describes the city of Amaurote by saying, " Of them all this is the worthiest and of most dignity ".

* Hervé Bazin's novel Les Bienheureux de la Désolation ( 1970 ) describes the 1961 forced exile of the population to England, and their subsequent return.

* Christopher Moore's novel, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, describes a Thuggee ritual.

* Christopher Koch's novel: " Out of Ireland " describes life as a convict in Van Diemen's Land.

In his 1969 novel Knight in Anarchy Shipway describes the life of Humphrey de Visdelou as he follows Geoffrey de Mandeville to his doom.

Émile Zola describes the back-stage and on-stage situation in the Théâtre des Variétés during the Second Empire in his novel Nana, which takes place in late 1860s and describes the career of operetta diva / courtesan Nana.

* Sixth Column by Robert A. Heinlein describes tractor / pressor beams as a product of the physics of a " newly-discovered magneto-gravitic or electro-gravitic spectra " featured in the novel.

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.

Andronikos was portrayed in the novel Baudolino by Umberto Eco, with much detail being given to his grisly end.

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

In the 18th-century novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the characters ' hobby-horses, or particular obsessions, are discussed in detail.

However The New York Times review of Deighton's novel appeared to treat Samson's remark as factual, and added the detail that Kennedy's audience found his remark funny:

In the laboratory, however, mutagenesis is a useful technique for generating mutations that allows the functions of genes and gene products to be examined in detail, producing proteins with improved characteristics or novel function, as well as mutant strains with useful properties.

In chapter three of Voltaire's 1747 novel Zadig there is an adaptation of The Three Princes of Serendip, this time involving, instead of a camel, a horse and a dog, which Zadig was able to describe in great detail from his observations of the tracks on the

The main strategic events of the battle ( but obviously not the detail ) are followed in Robyn Young's novel Requiem.

Gull takes John Netley, his coachman, sole confidant, and reluctant aide, on a tour of London landmarks ( including Cleopatra's Needle and Nicholas Hawksmoor's churches ), expounding about their hidden mystical significance, which is lost to the modern world themes had also been explored in detail by Moore's near contemporary Peter Ackroyd in his novel Hawksmoor, published five years before From Hell.

P. Schuyler Miller gave the book a favorable review as " a first-rate historical novel of the near future ," saying " So subtly has the scientific detail been interwoven with plot and action that the reader never realizes how painstakingly it has been worked out.

P. Schuyler Miller praised the novel as " very smoothly and logically put together ," although he noted that it lacked the level of " elaboration of background detail " that he expected from Heinlein.

* Henry's Court is described in some detail in James Blish's historical novel concerning Roger Bacon, Doctor Mirabilis.

" P. Schuyler Miller recommended the novel unreservedly, saying that Heinlein's " minute attention to detail.

The picaresque novel ( Spanish: " picaresca ," from " pícaro ," for " rogue " or " rascal ") is a popular sub-genre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts, in realistic and often humorous detail, the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society.

The novel contains many themes which are common in Wyndham's work: a depiction of the Soviet Union as an opaque, inscrutable menace, a central problem made worse by human greed and bickering, and a firm determination on the part of the author to not explicitly detail the origin of the threat faced by the protagonists.

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.

When Chandler merged his stories into a novel he spent more effort on expanding descriptions of people, places, and Marlowe's thought processes than getting every detail of the plot perfectly consistent.

Rather, the novel describes in greater detail the feelings of the protagonist and what goes on in her immediate surroundings.

It is a naturalistic novel exploring the commercial world of Shanghai in detail.

* The Babi Yar executions are described in detail in Jonathan Littell's novel Les Bienveillantes ( in English, The Kindly Ones ), whose main character, Dr. Aue, is one of the Nazi officers in charge.

The novel is rich in descriptive detail, using observations about the state of the Lisbon house and the contents of the girls ’ rooms to advance the plot.

This era and setting was described in detail in the semi-autobiographical novel, Life Amongst the Modocs, written by poet and novelist Joaquin Miller.

The novel focuses deeply and almost exclusively on the consciousness of the central characters, with sometimes obsessive detail and powerful insight.

Even though in American Psycho the most heinous crimes are depicted in minute detail, the novel has never been labelled a " crime novel ", maybe because it is never explicitly mentioned whether Bateman actually commits the crimes or rather just fantasizes about them.