In his novel The House Of The Dead, Dostoevsky tells of his experiences in a Siberian prison camp.

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.

La Peste ) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.

What interests him, he tells Rieux, is how to become a saint, even though he does not believe in God .</ br > Later in the novel, Tarrou tells Rieux, with whom he has become friends, the story of his life.

Later in the novel, when Tarrou tells Rieux the story of his life, he adds a new dimension to the term ” plague .“ He views it not just as a specific disease or simply as the presence of an impersonal evil external to humans.

Her award-winning 1974 novel The Dispossessed, a book in the Hainish Cycle, tells of the invention of the ansible.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe ( 1719 ) tells of a man's shipwreck on a deserted island and his subsequent adventures.

* The Great Auk is the subject of a novel, The Last Great Auk by Allen Eckert, which tells of the events leading to the extinction of the Great Auk as seen from the perspective of the last one alive.

* For Whom the Bell Tolls, an Ernest Hemingway novel which tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer attached to a guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War.

The general political events depicted in the novel are relatively accurate ; the novel tells of the period just after King Richard's imprisonment in Austria following the Crusade and of his return to England after a ransom is paid.

Directed by John Boorman, from a script that poet James Dickey had helped to adapt from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a canoe trip gone awry in a feral, backwoods America.

Noah Charney's novel, The Art Thief tells the story of two stolen Malevich White on White paintings, and discusses the implications of Malevich's radical Suprematist compositions on the art world.

" Then the novel tells a story of boys trying to grow mandrake using hanged archbishop's semen.

Laputa: Castle in the Sky ( 1986 ) recounts the adventure of two orphans seeking a magical castle-island that floats in the sky ; My Neighbor Totoro ( Tonari no Totoro, 1988 ) tells of the adventure of two girls and their interaction with forest spirits ; and Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1989 ), adapted from a novel by Eiko Kadono, tells the story of a small-town girl who leaves home to begin life as a witch in a big city.

The novel tells the story of a washed-up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to pull off the ultimate hack.

Bryce Courtenay's novel Jessica tells in the history a case brought in a New South Wales court against the Aboriginal Protection Board challenging the Aboriginal Protection Act of 1909 in order to return two children from Cootamundra Girls Home for Aboriginal children to the aboriginal mother.

* Woman of a Thousand Secrets, a novel by Barbara Wood, tells the story of the founding of Tenochtitlán through the eyes of someone who was there.

* Huesos de Lagartija, a novel by Federico Navarrete, tells the story of a young Aztec who lived through the European invasion of Mexico.

The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward.

Indeed, the opera bears some striking resemblances with the novel, and, in short, tells the story of a medieval ( and historically real ) singer, whose art is so beautiful that he causes Venus, the goddess of love herself, to fall in love with him, and to offer him eternal life with her in the Venusberg.

Earlier in the novel Simon himself also predicts his own death when he tells Ralph that he will " get back all right ", implying that, of the two of them, only Ralph will be saved.

Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

As a result, Suchet will have filmed adaptations of every Poirot novel, and all but one Poirot short story.

A novel called Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, based on Avicenna's story, was later written by Ibn Tufail ( Abubacer ) in the 12th century and translated into Latin and English as Philosophus Autodidactus in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively.

Aphrodite figures as a secondary character in the Tale of Eros and Psyche, which first appeared as a digressive story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius ' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century AD.

Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night ( 1996 ) is a novel by K. W. Jeter that continues the story of Rick Deckard.

* Court History of David or Succession narrative ( 2 Samuel 9-20 and 1 Kings 1-2 ): a " historical novel ", in Alberto Soggin's phrase, telling the story of David's reign from his affair with Bathsheba to his death.

The story was written for the screen and then as a novel by Randall Wallace.

An Entwicklungsroman (" development novel ") is a story of general growth rather than self-cultivation.

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.

A picaresque novel with a story similar to that of a more serious bildungsroman, it parodies many adventure and romance clichés, the struggles of which are caricatured in a tone that is mordantly matter-of-fact.

The 1972 science fiction novel Cyborg, by Martin Caidin, told the story of a man whose damaged body parts are replaced by mechanical devices (" bionics ").

Smith's works consist of: a single novel, originally published in two volumes in edited form as The Planet Buyer, also known as The Boy Who Bought Old Earth ( 1964 ) and The Underpeople ( 1968 ), and later restored to its original form as Norstrilia ( 1975 ); and 32 short stories ( collected in The Rediscovery of Man ( 1993 ), including two versions of the short story " War No. 81-Q ").

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

The word " cyberspace " ( from cybernetics and space ) was coined by science fiction novelist and seminal cyberpunk author William Gibson in his 1982 story " Burning Chrome " and popularized by his 1984 novel Neuromancer.

* Borgia, by Milo Manara ( artist ) & Alejandro Jodorowsky ( writer ), a comic in the form of serialized graphic novel, depicting the story of the Borgia family.

The Danish crime story The Rector of Veilbye by Steen Steensen Blicher was written in 1829, and the Norwegian crime novel Mordet på Maskinbygger Rolfsen (" The Murder of Engine Maker Rolfsen ") by Maurits Hansen was published in 1839.

T. S. Eliot called Collins's novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ) " the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels ... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe ", and Dorothy L. Sayers called it " probably the very finest detective story ever written ".

Defoe's next novel was Captain Singleton ( 1720 ), a bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy.

He first appears in the story 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, released as both a novel and a film in 1968.

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.

They vary from short story collection to fix-up ( novel created from older short stories ) perhaps all the way to novel.