An Erziehungsroman (" education novel ") focuses on training and formal schooling, while a Künstlerroman (" artist novel ") is about the development of an artist and shows a growth of the self.

The novel has been variously read as an allegory for the development of civilisation, as a manifesto of economic individualism and as an expression of European colonial desires but it also shows the importance of repentance and illustrates the strength of Defoe's religious convictions.

The novel shows the genre's results of changing perspectives: individual points were presented by the individual characters, and the central voice of the author and moral evaluation disappeared ( at least in the first volume ; her further volumes introduced a narrator ).

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 ").

Based on the ideas in the book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler, the novel shows a dystopian early 21st century America dominated by computer networks, and is considered by some critics to be an early ancestor of the " cyberpunk " genre.

The novel Pornografia shows Poland in times of war when the eternal order and the whole system of traditional culture, based on the faith in God, collapsed.

* Chart Throb ( 2006 ) is a comic novel by Ben Elton that parodies The X Factor and The Osbournes, among other reality shows.

* Oryx and Crake ( 2003 ), a speculative fiction novel by Margaret Atwood, occasionally makes mentions of the protagonist and his friend entertaining themselves by watching reality TV shows of live executions, Noodie News, frog squashing, graphic surgery, and child pornography.

Typically the system shows implicit context ( context was formerly assumed, and narrow ), lack of capacity ( e. g., low number of possible IDs, reflecting the outmoded narrow context ), lack of extensibility ( no features defined and reserved against future needs ), and lack of specificity and disambiguating capability ( related to the context shift, where longstanding uniqueness encounters novel nonuniqueness ).

* Ursula K. Le Guin's novel The Dispossessed ( 1974 ) shows a fictional functioning Anarcho-syndicalist society.

* The young adult novel The Smile by Donna Jo Napoli shows Savonarola as he was observed by a young Mona Lisa.

The novel also shows the emergence of new sub-cultures such as the elusive, high-tech CryptNet and the " Drummers ," who achieve a state of group mind through drumming, nanotechnology, and group sex.

( Another 1981 interview, posted on YouTube, shows Niven on The Merv Griffin Show while publicizing his novel Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly.

Although the science fiction film Destination Moon is generally described as being based on Heinlein's novel Rocket Ship Galileo, the story in fact bears a much closer resemblance to The Man Who Sold the Moon, whose copyright date shows that it was written in 1949, although it wasn't published until 1951, the year after Destination Moon came out.

As the Damien Broderick novel Transmitters ( 1984 ) shows, unlike other, isolated, self-publishers, the more " fannish " ( fandom-oriented ) fanzine publishers had a shared sensibility and at least as much interest in their relationships between fans as in the literature that inspired it.

* To Serve Them All My Days, a 1972 novel of R. F. Delderfield, shows many similar plot elements to Goodbye, Mr. Chips.

Dime novels are, at least in spirit, the antecedent of today ’ s mass market paperbacks, comic books, and even television shows and movies based on the dime novel genres.

Also significant within the Culture novel cycle is that the book shows a number of Minds acting in a decidedly non-benevolent way, somewhat qualifying the godlike non-corruptibility and benevolence they are ascribed in other Culture novels.

The end of the novel shows the Culture's capacity for wrath, perhaps even evil, when they unleash a nightmarishly bloody retribution in the form of an E-Dust Assassin against the Chelgrian priest who was responsible, as well as his immediate co-conspirators.

A more recent example of a spoof, which at the same time shows that the borderline between serious mystery and its parody is necessarily blurred, is U. S. mystery writer Lawrence Block's novel The Burglar in the Library ( 1997 ).

At one point in the novel, she learns the difference between compulsive and obsessive behaviour ( compulsive behaviour is to do with action, obsessive behaviour with thoughts ) and promptly thinks she herself shows both types of behaviour.

Given the lax copyright laws of the time, stage plays based on Uncle Tom's Cabin —" Tom shows "— began to appear while the novel was still being serialized.

She shows up in The Enemies of Jupiter, is mentioned in The Assassins of Rome and plays a fairly prominent role in Lion Feuchtwanger's historical novel, Josephus ( The Jewish War ).

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu d ' esprit written in just three weeks.

Cuarón's feature, Children of Men, an adaptation of the P. D. James novel starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine, received wide critical acclaim, including three Academy Award nominations.

A. E. van Vogt used the idea as a plot device in his story " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ), which was later combined with the three other Space Beagle stories to became the novel, The Voyage of the Space Beagle.

* Many of the members of Section 9 in the Ghost in the Shell universe, specifically the main characters Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, are cyborgs dependent on regular maintenance ; there are several manga ( or graphic novel ) and artbooks set in the GitS universe, as well as two feature-length anime films, three television series and three video games.

The 21st century has already seen three new translations of the novel into English.

The first novel to expose the complex play that the genre allows was Aphra Behn's Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, which appeared in three volumes in 1684, 1685, and 1687.

; Forgotten Futures VI: Victorian Villainy: A source collection for melodramatic adventures, including three plays, the novel A Bid For Fortune by Guy Boothby, some of E. W.

The sales of Margaret Mitchell's novel in the summer of 1936, at the virtually unprecedented price of three dollars, reached about one million by the end of December.

In addition to the contingency-focused approaches mentioned, there has been a high degree of interest paid to three novel approaches that have recently emerged.

I wrote three more stories with novel genetic ideas before 1953.

Foster further asserts 1928 was a " peak year " for lesbian-themed literature ; in addition to The Well of Loneliness, three other novels with lesbian themes were published in England: Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel, Woolf's Orlando, and Compton MacKenzie's satirical novel Extraordinary Women.

Members of the chemistry department have been awarded three Nobel Prizes and one Wolf Prize for the discovery of novel syntheses and methods.

A 1995 edition of all three completed Gormenghast novels includes a very short fragment of the beginning of what would have been the fourth Gormenghast novel, Titus Awakes, as well as a listing of events and themes he wanted to address in that and later Gormenghast novels.

For the next three years Mitchell worked exclusively on writing a Civil War-era novel whose heroine was named Pansy O ' Hara ( prior to publication Pansy was changed to Scarlett ).

In his forenote to the novel, King wrote, " Don Robertson was and is one of the three writers who influenced me as a young man who was trying to ' become ' a novelist ( the other two being Richard Matheson and John D.

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

Active membership is limited to professionally published authors in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, or horror ; the minimum qualification is the sale of one novel or dramatic script, or three short stories, to venues with certain minimum circulations or pay rates.

In Douglas Adams's novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, the well-known line from Coleridge's Kubla Khan, " Weave a circle round him thrice ", is interpreted as the salute of an alien culture: " He waved hand round in a circle, three times.

Published when the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was a bestseller, Northup's book sold 30, 000 copies within three years.

* Van Diemen's Land is the setting of the novel English Passengers by Matthew Kneale ( 2000 ), which tells the story of three eccentric Englishmen who in 1857 set sail for the island in search of the Garden of Eden.

The contest rules state that entrants cannot have had published " a novel or short novel, or more than one novelette, or more than three short stories, in any medium.

Early in the novel we learn that he worked for Military Intelligence for three years before joining his present agency – WOOC ( P ) – as a civilian employee.