" Johnston took the-vril suffix from Bulwer-Lytton's then-popular " lost race " novel The Coming Race ( 1870 ), whose plot revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named " Vril.

* A Deceit To Die For ( novel ) by Luke Montgomery ( author ) that revolves around the history of the Gospel of Barnabas

Wells's novel revolves around an ( unspecified ) invention that accelerates the process of radioactive decay, producing bombs that explode with no more than the force of ordinary high explosive — but which " continue to explode " for days on end.

Crime writer Emma Lathen's 1997 novel, " A Shark Out of Water ", revolves around the murder of a Polish official who was championing the improvement of the Kiel Canal.

In the mystery novel The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters ( 1974 ) the central plot revolves around the debate as to whether Richard III was guilty of these and other crimes.

Many critics and audiences have likened the film to a modern Western, while many others dispute this, or liken it to a crime novel that revolves around mistaken identity plot devices.

The novel revolves around the Idiran-Culture War, and Banks plays on that theme by presenting various microcosms of that conflict.

In Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne's novel The Wrong Box, much of the farcical plot revolves around the mis-delivery of two boxes at Waterloo station, and the attempts by the various protagonists to retrieve them.

This short novel revolves around a woman having a one-night stand with a total stranger who suddenly and unexpectedly commits suicide in her bedroom, and the woman's attempts at disposing of the body so as not to cause a scandal about herself or be suspected of killing the man.

Whyte's novel " Uther ", written in 2000, revolves around a fictionalized version of Uther's life.

In many ways a sequel to the first novel in the cycle, La Fortune des Rougon ( 1871 ), this novel is again centred on the fictional Provençal town of Plassans and its plot revolves around a sinister cleric's attempt at political intrigue with disastrous consequences for some of the townsfolk.

* The Vertigo Comics graphic novel Area 10 by Christos N. Gage and Chris Samnee revolves around a serial killer who performs trepanations on his victims.

His novel revolves around a fictional long-running Chancery case, Jarndyce and Jarndyce.

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.

Russell's fourth novel, Dreamers of the Day ( released in March 2008 ), revolves around the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, which laid the foundations for the modern Middle East.

Similarly, Gowdy's novel Mister Sandman revolves around the family of Joan, a young autistic girl with a savant talent for playing classical music on the piano.

* The visual novel Ever17 strongly revolves around the number 17.

The novel, set in 1983, revolves around a game programmer and his family.

The novel, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, written in 1798, but never published, revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an asylum by her husband ; Maria finds fulfilment outside of marriage, in an affair with a fellow inmate.

* Carousel of Progress — a novel theater that revolves a seated audience around central stages

The subplot of Myra Breckinridge revolves around the character of Letitia Van Allen, an aging, sexually voracious talent scout whom Myra meets and befriends at the academy, whose office boasts a four-poster bed and whose kinky sexual practices (" Those small attentions a girl like me cherishes … a lighted cigarette stubbed out on my derrière, a complete beating with his great thick heavy leather belt …") landed her in hospital, " half paralyzed ", at the same time Myra finds herself there towards the end of the novel.

The web site deals with arguments the author has had with his German girlfriend, Margret ; the novel is fiction, though it revolves around arguments the English protagonist has had with his German girlfriend.

Although the novel is set in the present, it revolves around a plot initiated in 1917 by Britain's King George V and the nefarious Sir Basil Zaharoff to rescue Czar Nicholas from the hands of the Bolsheviks.

The author's first novel, it revolves around the protagonist Phaethon ( full name Phaethon Prime Rhadamanth Humodified ( augment ) Uncomposed, Indepconciousness, Base Neuroformed, Silver-Gray Manorial Schola, Era 7043 ).

Here, in the most eagerly awaited novel of the season ( his first since The Catcher In The Rye, ) he tells of a college girl in flight from the life around her and the tart but sympathetic help she gets from her 25-year-old brother.

* Domitia and Domitian ( 2000 ), a historical novel by David Corson based on the works of Brian Jones and Pat Southern, revolving around the titular characters.

In both the book and movie 2001, astronaut and scientist David Bowman is on a mission to track the source of an alien artifact found on the moon, which leads to a moon around the planet Jupiter ( in the novel, Saturn ); the story takes place in the year 2001.

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.

He has also signed on to direct, produce, and write an adaptation of Stephen King's sci-fi novel 11 / 22 / 63 that centers around an attempt to go back in time and stop the Kennedy Assassination.

The novel epitomizes many of Dick's themes with its concerns about the nature of reality and ordinary people in ordinary lives having the world unravel around them.

Concern about the rapid pace of technological change crystallized around the concept of the technological singularity, popularized by Vernor Vinge's novel Marooned in Realtime and then taken up by other authors.

Jane Austen wrote the first draft of the novel in the form of a novel-in-letters ( epistolary form ) sometime around 1795 when she was about 19 years old, and gave it the title, Elinor and Marianne.

He was also a writer whose novel Hebdomeros presents a series of dreamscapes with an unusual use of punctuation, syntax, and grammar designed to create an atmosphere and frame around its images.

Another notable change is that in the latter half of the novel events were specified as taking place around Dorian Gray's 32nd birthday, on 7 November.

In the 1771 German novel Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim by Sophie von La Roche, a high-minded character complains about the newly introduced waltz among aristocrats thus: " But when he put his arm around her, pressed her to his breast, cavorted with her in the shameless, indecent whirling-dance of the Germans and engaged in a familiarity that broke all the bounds of good breeding — then my silent misery turned into burning rage.

* Mark Z. Danielewski's novel " House of Leaves " centers around a house containing an infinite number of rooms.

In a 1980 interview given to the science fiction magazine Starship, Wilson suggested the novel was also an attempt to build a myth around Discordianism:

A passage from the novel appears as the preface of Ian McEwan's Atonement, thus likening the naive mistakes of Austen's Catherine Morland to those of his own character Briony Tallis, who is in a similar position: both characters have very over-active imaginations, which lead to misconceptions that cause distress in the lives of people around them.

Terry Pratchett authored the 1999 novel The Fifth Elephant centered around the theft of a Dwarfish coronation seat made from hardened bread and called the Scone of Stone.

The 99 chapters of his 600-page novel, move like a knight's tour of a chessboard around the room plan of the building, describing the rooms and stairwell and telling the stories of the inhabitants.

* The Thomas Pynchon novel V. contains a chapter centered around an attempted robbery of The Birth of Venus from the museum.

* Steven Saylor has written the novel Catilina's Riddle, where the plot evolves around the intrigue between Catilina and Cicero in 63 BC.

The novel was designed to promote sales of the boxed set by providing colorful details about the social customs and peoples of various cities and countries around the Flanaess.