Critics of the novel have treated it as a romance intended mainly to entertain boys.

The islands are mainly known for having been the home to the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk for four years, which may have inspired the novel Robinson Crusoe.

It is mainly from this novel that the contemporary view of Saladin originates.

* Poul Anderson's novel The Mother of the Kings is mainly concerned with the Norwegian King Erik Bloodaxe and his family, but a section takes place in Denmark, with a depiction of the young and ambitious Harald Bluetooth ruthlessly playing off various factions and Viking leaders against each other.

Religious controversy surrounding the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone along with the rest of the Harry Potter series have stemmed mainly from assertions that the novel contains occult or Satanic subtexts.

Beyond the basic twin plots surrounding Pitman and Cochrane, England, England is a novel of ideas — mainly ideas that correspond to the criticism of society voiced by French philosophers of the second half of the 20th century.

The author mainly expands upon details in Barrie's original play and novel, while changing a few key points-he ascribes James's strange colouring and yellow blood to a blood disorder ; James's long dark hair is natural, rather than the usual wig ; James is christened " Hook " after murdering the quartermaster of the Sea Witch, rather than in reference to his prosthetic hand ( in the original novel, Hook was known as " Hook " before he lost his hand, so this is consistent ).

L. Ron Hubbard's 1982 novel Battlefield Earth depicts a merciless alien race-the Psychlos-conquering and controlling Earth for 1, 000 years to strip the planet of its minerals, mainly gold.

The Red Branch warriors, including Cúchulainn and the sons of Usnech, appear as main characters in The Swan Maiden ( 2009 ), a novel by Jules Watson about the life of Deirdre The Raven Queen tells more of the story, mainly Maeve's view.

In 2006, award winning novelist John Green wrote a novel titled An Abundance of Katherines which took place mainly in Milan, Tennessee.

Religious controversy surrounding Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and the other books in the Harry Potter series mainly deal with the claims that novel contains occult or Satanic subtexts.

While the novel actually follows literally hundreds of characters, the focus is mainly on the three power blocs that emerged from the remnants of the Han Dynasty, and would eventually form the three states of Wei, Shu, and Wu.

However as society changed and formerly taboo topics such as sex and drugs became more openly discussed, critics came to attack the book for other reasons ; mainly that it was too pessimistic, and that it was a journey in the footsteps of a psychotic and showed humanity through his warped and unstable viewpoint, a fact that Hesse did not dispute, although he did respond to critics by noting the novel ends on a theme of new hope.

The games draw ideas mainly from the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms.

He is mainly referred to as Tang Sanzang () in the novel.

Granius compiled a " novel " narrative epitome of Roman history, drawing mainly on Livy and Sallust, that ran to at least 36 books, " keen on anecdotes and curious details.

The most important ones are: Littérature du midi de l ' Europe ( 1813 ), a historical novel entitled Julia Severa ou l ' an 492 ( 1822 ), Histoire de la renaissance de la liberté en Italie ( 1832 ), Histoire de la chute de l ' Empire romain ( 1835 ), Précis de l ' histoire des Français, an abridgment of his own book ( 1839 ), and several others, mainly political pamphlets.

This adaptation was mainly faithful to the novel, with minor changes.

The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries.

His reputation depends mainly on a novel, The Vicar of Wakefield, a play, She Stoops to Conquer, and two long poems, The Traveller and The Deserted Village.

The rest of the novel is narrated mainly in flashback.

The film differs slightly from the graphic novel, mainly in that Rorschach uses the meat cleaver that killed Blair Roche to kill Grice.

* Irishman George Moore also wrote an " English " novel mainly set in London, Esther Waters ( 1894 ).

The novel depicts the friendship between Alexander II and Patrick II, Earl of Dunbar.

The novel depicts the " Norse invasion of Scotland " ( 1262 – 1263, part of the Scottish – Norwegian War ) and the Battle of Largs.

The novel Coalescent by Stephen Baxter depicts Aurelianus as a general to Artorius, Briton and basis for the legend of King Arthur.

The 1888 novel Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy depicts a fictional planned economy in a United States c. the year 2000 which has become a socialist utopia.

She is assumed to have been the inspiration for his novel about a nun, La Religieuse, in which he depicts a woman who is forced to enter a monastery where she suffers at the hands of the other nuns in the community.

Some authors believe that Bacon's vision for a Utopian New World in North America was laid out in his novel New Atlantis, which depicts a mythical island, Bensalem, located somewhere between Peru and Japan.

Michael Moorcock's fantasy novel The War Hound and the World's Pain depicts a supernatural Grail quest set in the era of the Thirty Years ' War, and science fiction has taken the Quest into interstellar space, figuratively in Samuel R. Delany's 1968 novel Nova, and literally on the television shows Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1 ( as the " Sangraal ").

The Painted Bird, Kosiński's controversial 1965 novel, is a fictional account that depicts the personal experiences of a boy of unknown religious and ethnic background who wanders around unidentified areas of Eastern Europe during World War II and takes refuge among a series of people, many of whom are brutally cruel and abusive, either to him or to others.

* The 2003 novel Fox at the Front by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson depicts Philby selling secrets to the Soviet Union during the alternate Battle of the Bulge where German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel turns on the Nazis and assists the Allies in capturing all of Berlin.

Edgar Saltus's historical fiction novel Mary Magdalene: A Chronicle ( 1891 ) depicts her as a heroine living in a castle at Magdala, who moves to Rome becoming the " toast of the tetrarchy ", telling John The Baptist she will " drink pearls ... sup on peacock's tongues.

Paperwork included with the model kit indicated the ship was mothballed at the Memory Alpha ship museum, and William Shatner's novel set in the Shatnerverse The Ashes of Eden ( 1996 ) depicts the Enterprise-A's removal from the mothball fleet before being destroyed defending the planet Chal.

* Outside the genre of science fiction, 1994's Disclosure, starring Michael Douglas ( based on the Michael Crichton's novel ) depicts a VR headset being used as a navigation device for a prototype computer file system.

The novel Queen of the Slayers ( 2005 ) by Nancy Holder offers a potential follow-up to the television series ; set after season seven, it depicts Buffy living in Italy with the morally ambiguous Immortal.

" Early in the novel, Amerigo Bonasera declares “ I believe in America .” The novel then depicts a nation where Mafia and big business are two sides of the same coin: both are corrupt, tell the truth selectively, and do exactly as they wish.

The novel depicts a world where genetic selection for increased health, longevity, and intelligence has become so widespread that the unmodified ' control naturals ' are a carefully managed ( and protected ) minority.

Rosemary Sutcliff's 1976 historical fiction novel Blood Feud depicts Basil II from the point of view of a member of his recently created Varangian Guard.

A novel about nineteenth-century Canadian farmers by Louis Hemon, entitled Maria Chapdelaine, depicts pea soup as common farmhouse fare:

* Ray Bradbury's novel The Martian Chronicles depicts Martians as a refined and artistic race of golden-skinned beings who closely resemble humans.

* Rebecca Bloomer's novel ' Unearthed ' ( 2011 ), the first in a series, depicts a futuristic human colony on Mars.

In his later novel Anathem, Stephenson more explicitly depicts this idea.

The novel Ella Minnow Pea depicts a fictional country set off of the South Carolina coast that idealizes the " Quick Brown Fox " pangram and its inventor.

The novel depicts the captivity of James I in the Kingdom of England, with the main events taking place in 1421-1422.