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 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 ''.

The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

Even in its present form, however, the first part of Malraux's unrecoverable novel is among the greatest works of mid-twentieth century literature ; ;

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.

It is indeed true, as stated in the famous novel of our day, `` For Whom The Bell Tolls '', that `` no man is an island, entirely of itself ; ;

The host of novel applications of electronics to medical problems is far more thrilling because of their implication in matters concerning our health and vitality.

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.

In them, there is usually a group of Anglo-Americans with tragicomic problems, worthy of being explored either in the novel or in the play or in comedy and satire ''.

Nevertheless, there are notably frequent instances of deja vue, in which our recognition of an entirely novel event is a feeling of having lived through it before, a feeling which, though vague, withstands the verbal barrage from the most impressive corps of psychologists.

Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

So is the time of the novel.

Corruption is hardly a recent development in the city and state that were widely identified as the locale of Edwin O'Connor's novel, `` The Last Hurrah ''.

London explains that the very distinct directional effect in the Phase 4 series is due in large part to their novel methods of microphoning and recording the music on a number of separate tape channels.

However, my principal objection in this sort of novel is to the hackneyed treatment of race-drivers, pilots, submariners, atomic researchers, and all the machine-masters of our age as brooding mystics or hysterical fatalists.

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.

Moll Flanders and Defoe's final novel Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress ( 1724 ) are examples of the remarkable way in which Defoe seems to inhabit his fictional ( yet " drawn from life ") characters, not least in that they are women.

" The novel has also been dismissed by a number of literary critics as " merely a sentimental novel ," while critic George Whicher stated in his Literary History of the United States that " Nothing attributable to Mrs. Stowe or her handiwork can account for the novel's enormous vogue ; its author's resources as a purveyor of Sunday-school fiction were not remarkable.

Arthur C. Clarke of 2001: A Space Odyssey fame was coincidentally visiting friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray Hill facility at the time of this remarkable speech synthesis demonstration and was so impressed that he used it in the climactic scene of his novel and screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the HAL 9000 computer sings the same song.

It is considered a remarkable first novel, because of the way in which the youthful Pym-who began the book while a student at Oxford before the Second World War-imagined herself into the situation of a middle-aged spinster, living with her sister in the country.

" T. Coraghessan Boyle of The New York Times Book Review wrote, " This is old Pynchon, the true Pynchon, the best Pynchon of all, Mason & Dixon is a groundbreaking book, a book of heart and fire and genius, and there is nothing quite like it in our literature ," New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani said, " A novel that is as moving as it is cerebral, as poignant as it is daring ... a book that testifies to Pynchon's remarkable powers of invention and his sheer power as a storyteller.

His novel Leben der schwedischen Gräfin von G. ( 1746 ), a weak imitation of Richardson's Pamela, is remarkable as being the first German attempt at a psychological novel.

Besides contributing various historical and critical essays to the North American Review, such as " life and Character of Peter the Great ", ( 1845 ) and a remarkable essay on the Polity of the Puritans, he published in 1849, again anonymously, a second novel, entitled Merry Mount, a Romance of the Massachusetts Colony, based again on the odd history of Thomas Morton and Merrymount.

He is remembered as the author of the Gothic novel Vathek, the builder of the remarkable lost Fonthill Abbey and Lansdown Tower (" Beckford's Tower "), Bath, and especially for his art collection.

Rubyfruit Jungle is the first novel ( 1973 ) by Rita Mae Brown, remarkable, in its day, for its explicit lesbianism.

The novel focuses on Molly Bolt, the adopted daughter of a poor family, who possesses remarkable beauty and who is aware of her lesbianism from early childhood.

Rather than for its largely predictable plot, the novel is remarkable for its depiction of late 1960s student life.

The novel is generally attributed as the first published work of the novelist Gene Stratton Porter, and bears a remarkable textual similarity to her other books.

Father Callahan also tells the gunslingers his remarkable story of how he left Maine following his battle with the vampire Kurt Barlow in the novel Salem's Lot.

The novel is all the more remarkable for its forbidden impressions of the rural working class in New England, especially given that its author was a woman of leisure.

L ' Énigme de Givreuse Enigma of Givreuse ( 1917 ) is another remarkable novel about a fissiparous human being, divided into two totally similar individuals, each naturally believing himself to be the original.

In the Flashman novel Flashman in the Great Game, the main character reads Tom Brown's School Days ( achieving a remarkable degree of abstraction as Flashman, a fictional character, is portrayed reading a real book about himself ).

* The park receives a nostalgic mention of the 1970s and 1980s life in Bano Qudsia's remarkable urdu novel Raja Gidh.

In addition to the lyricism and beauty of Conrad's descriptive writing, the novel is remarkable for its sophisticated structure.

Aldiss and Wingrove praised The Deep as " a remarkable first novel, well written and darkly true to human nature.

The book received an enthusiastic review in the New York Times upon its original publication, which called it " a novel of remarkable power ," and which read in part " Its varied elements are harmoniously blended, and the discriminating reader who has completed the whole story in a protracted sitting or two must rise from it with the conviction that there are no parts of it which do not properly and essentially belong to the whole.

Other notable works by Grousset published under the Laurie pseudonym include De New York à Brest en Sept Heures York to Brest In Seven Hours ( 1888 ), which predicted a transatlantic tunnel ; Le Secret du Mage Secret Of The Magician ( 1890 ), in which evidence of an advanced prehistoric is discovered ; Le Rubis du Grand Lama Ruby Of The Great Lama ( 1894 ), which features a steam-powered flying island ; Atlantis ( 1895 ), which describes how the mythical kingdom has survived under a glass dome at the bottom of the sea near the Azores ; Le Maître de l ' Abîme Master Of The Abyss ( 1905 ), which features a revolutionary submarine, and finally Spiridon le Muet The Mute ( 1907 ), a remarkable novel about a human-sized, intelligent ant.

Daphnis and Chloe resembles a modern novel more than does its chief rival among Greek erotic romances, the Aethiopica of Heliodorus, which is remarkable more for its plot than its characterization.