* In Oscar Wilde's novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), a portrait serves as a magical mirror that reflects the true visage of the perpetually youthful protagonist, as well as the effect on his soul of each sinful act

* In Peter Høeg's novel Smilla's Sense of Snow, the titular heroine reflects that it is admirable for the hotel's manager and guests to go to all that trouble so that the latecomer can have his own room and some privacy.

This novel begins with the death of Big Brother and reflects an intermediate period between 1984 and a more optimistic future characterized with a decline in orthodoxy of the totalitarian system, struggles of the ensuing powers and the near destruction of the Oceania air force by Eurasia.

" Despite " unlike coincidence and occasional melodrama " in the plotting, Williamson concluded that " the novel is a fine juvenile reflects hopes and fears we all have known.

This may be as a result of the autobiographical aspects of the novel, as it reflects a number of incidents and parallels very close to his own experiences.

While the series ' first book consisted of a coming of age process through an arduous voyage which would ultimately lead to Ged confronting his own issues, The Tombs Of Atuan works in a much more restricted, confined space, which reflects itself in the narrative's style and progression, Tenar's tale being more intimate and less epically inclined than the previous novel.

The novel reflects the state of scientific knowledge of its time, some of which has been superseded.

This novel reflects Confucian values that were prominent at the time it was written.

It is also notable that the very existence of Hermine in the novel is never confirmed ; the manuscript left in Harry Haller's room reflects a story that completely revolves around his personal experiences.

The story deals with the experiences of a young writer and reflects her own, like in her previous novel A Beginner.

World War II provided the final impulse for exploring the subject in a novel which, although depicting events that took place over 3, 000 years ago, in fact reflects the contemporary feelings of disillusionment and war-weariness and carries a pessimistic message of the essential sameness of human nature throughout the ages.

Chillingworth's misshapen body reflects ( or symbolizes ) the anger in his soul, which builds as the novel progresses, similar to the way Dimmesdale's illness reveals his inner turmoil.

* In the Past Doctor Adventures novel The Murder Game, the Second Doctor encounters weapon designers Neville and Dorothy Adler, using the name as an alias while posing as mystery writers ; the Doctor notes that Adler was the name of a character created by his friend Arthur Conan Doyle, with another character suggesting that the name reflects Dorothy's ego.

* The novel reflects in many respects its time of publication at the end of the permissive sixties, but nowhere more so than when a character uses the word " lesbian " in Chapter 15.

In his 1959 novel Life and Fate, Vassily Grossman's principal character, the physicist Viktor Shtrum, reflects on Prout's hypothesis about hydrogen being the origin of other elements ( and the felicitous fact that Prout's incorrect data led to an essentially correct conclusion ), as he worries about his inability to formulate his own thesis.

The novel suggests that the separation of species may have been the result of a widening split between different social classes, a theme that reflects Wells's sociopolitical opinions.

The novel, set in Paris in the 1920s, revolves around the lives of five characters, two of whom are based on Barnes and Wood, and it reflects the circumstances surrounding the ending of their relationship.

* A country that reflects and forms its national identity through a ' novel foreign policy ': Peacekeeping, Human Security, the International Criminal Court, and the Kyoto Protocol

The Universal film treated the Monster's identity in a manner that reflects its resemblance to Mary Shelley's novel: the name of the actor, not the character, is hidden by a question mark.

The novel reflects his feelings during that experience.

The entry into the world of the dead reflects Greek mythology when an aged boatman ( not named in the novel, but presumably representing Charon ) ferries souls across a river to a dark, joyless realm where the many worlds ' dead are tormented by harpies.

Her novel in verse Forsaking All Others ( 1933 ) about a tragic love affair, which many consider her greatest work, reflects this, though it is certainly not autobiographical.

The stories cover a wide range of genres and subjects, including the gothic, the picaresque, the erotic, the historical, the moral, and the philosophic ; and as a whole the novel reflects Potocki's far-ranging interests, especially his deep fascination with secret societies, the supernatural, and " Oriental " cultures.

Like the original novel, it too reflects the general social attitudes of the time.

The novel Clarté is about an office worker who, while serving in the army, begins to realize that the imperialist war is a crime.

The novel at first attracted severe criticism from some reviewers who objected to what they regarded as its imperialist viewpoint and graphic depiction of acts of savagery.

However, their goals and ambitions are not realized until the later part of the novel.

He wrote a powerful novel, Sólon Islandus ( 1940 ), about a daydreaming 19th-century vagabond whose intellectual ambitions are smothered by society ; a successful play, Gullna hliðið ( 1941 ; The Golden Gate, 1967, in Fire and Ice: Three Icelandic Plays ); and other prose works, but they are overshadowed by his verse.

The struggles of the impoverished cane sugar plantation workers, and the ambitions of a loving grandmother who works hard to put the main character through school are the core subject of the novel, which also describes life in a colonial society.

In the story, Peter Chancellor, who found unlikely success as an author of political thrillers after his ambitions to become a historian were frustrated, writes a work of fiction that comes close enough to the scenario described that the people who controlled those files, a group called Inver Brass in the novel, decide that someone else may also know too much.

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.

Since the rights holders in Japan by this time had created a unified ( although still evolving ) list of romanized character and mecha names, Schodt was able to use it, and Amuro's rival in the novel thus became " Char " and not " Sha "; the popular Zeon Mobile Suit, similarly, became " Zaku ," and not " Zak ".

* The Japanese horror novel Another is set in the fictional town of Yomiyama, Japan during 1998.

* Publication begins of Futabatei Shimei's Ukigumo, the first modern novel in Japan.

The novel was first published in Japan on July 20, 2006 by Kodansha ; it was then licensed in English by Dark Horse and released it in North America on December 12, 2007.

In the final novel, set in the 1950s inside Japan, he is a senior intelligence official in the pro-Western Japanese government.

In addition he helped Richard Henry Brunton design lighthouses for Japan, inventing a novel method for allowing them to withstand earthquakes.

* You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ): the lines " this organization does not tolerate failure " and " in Japan men come first "; the scenes with the Jaguar and the video communication with Basil Exposition at the very beginning modelled on similar sequences with Bond, Aki and Tiger Tanaka ; external shots of the Virtucon enterprise modelled on external shots of the Osaka enterprise ; interior of Alotta's apartment ; bath tub sequence in Alotta's apartment ; Austin's poetry similar to Tiger Tanaka's reading of poetry ( actually written by Bond in the novel ); Mr. Bigglesworth ( Dr.

The two-volume historical novel saga White as Bone, Red as Blood: The Fox Sorceress ( 2009 ), and White as Bone, Red as Blood: The Storm God ( 2011 ) depict in detail the pivotal years 1160 – 1185 in Japan, as seen through the eyes of protagonist Seiko Fujiwara.

Ihara Saikaku might be said to have given birth to the modern consciousness of the novel in Japan, mixing vernacular dialogue into his humorous and cautionary tales of the pleasure quarters.

Shea went on to write historical action novels, including Shike ( 1981 ), a two-volume novel set in Ancient Japan about the warrior monk Jebu and his love Lady Shima Taniko, All Things Are Lights ( 1986 ), and The Saracen, a novel published in two volumes in 1989 depicting the struggle between a blond Muslim warrior called Daoud ibn Abdullah and his French crusader adversary Simon de Gobignon.

While the game's title as it was released in English refers the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms ( 三國演義 ) by Luo Guanzhong, the title as it was released in Japan refers to the historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms ( 三國志 ) by Chen Shou.

He is perhaps best known for Men Who Live on the Sea 海に生くる人々, a novel about the appalling labor conditions on factory ships, and for short stories such as The Prostitute 淫売婦 ( imbaifu ), an early ( 1925 ) example of proletarian literature in Japan.

* Rashomon Gate: A Mystery of Ancient Japan, a 2002 novel written by I. J. Parker

Clavell claimed that reading a sentence in his daughter's textbook that stated that " in 1600, an Englishman went to Japan and became a samurai " inspired the novel.

The editor of Learning from Shōgun: Japanese History and Western Fantasy ( 1980 ) estimated that 20 to 50 % of all students in American college-level courses about Japan had read the novel.

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* The Japan Fantasy Novel Award is established, with Ken ' ichi Sakemi winning with his novel Kōkyū Shōsetsu.

* Futabatei Shimei writes The Drifting Cloud, the first modern novel in Japan.

The first Western texts on revolutionary social theory available in Japan were mostly on anarchism, but Nosaka also enjoyed Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, Looking Backward.

While controversial, it was previously entered into the 1997 Japan Grand Prix Horror Novel competition but was eventually rejected in the final round due to its content, the novel became a surprise bestseller.

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