The novel was not only the presenter of the new, secular, rationalistic, private world of the middle class.

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.

Krim was able to get an advance for a novel, and time and opportunity to write at Yaddo, but it was no good.

He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.

His lordship was concerned in the management of Drury Lane but, if there were no opportunities there, would he read and criticize her novel??

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

Mr. Remarque's conception of this novel was sound and perhaps even noble.

the book was a fine historical novel about Edward 3,, and I did a week of research to get the details just right: the fifteenth-century armor, furnishings, clothes.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

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

In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).

He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

The scenes at the end of the novel, when Oran's gates are reopened, recall the jubilant scenes in Paris when the city was liberated in 1944.

Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

The novel was not published until shortly after Christie's death in 1976, some thirty-six years after it was originally written.

This first film was based on the 1957 novel 4: 50 from Paddington ( U. S. title, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!

Although generally called a war novel, the author states that he " see The Time in Between as a war novel ".

It is less generally realized that his Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer ( 1964 ) was a similar exercise, exploring theological questions through correspondence addressed to a fictional recipient, " Malcolm ", though this work may be considered a " novel " only loosely in that developments in Malcolm's personal life gradually come to light and impact the discussion.

Typee, Melville's first novel, describes a brief love affair with a beautiful native girl, Fayaway, who generally " wore the garb of Eden " and came to epitomize the guileless noble savage in the popular imagination.

The Grail has also been treated in works of non-fiction, which generally seek to interpret its meaning in novel ways.

" While praising the novel generally, he faulted Niven for relying on inconsistencies regarding evolution in his extrapolations to support his fictional premises.

Apocalyptic fiction generally concerns the disaster itself and the direct aftermath, while post-apocalyptic can deal with anything from the near aftermath ( as in Cormac McCarthy's The Road ) to 375 years in the future ( as in By The Waters of Babylon ) to hundreds or thousands of years in the future, as in Russell Hoban's novel Riddley Walker and Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s A Canticle for Leibowitz.

Maugham's masterpiece is generally agreed to be Of Human Bondage, a semiautobiographical novel that deals with the life of the main character Philip Carey, who, like Maugham, was orphaned, and brought up by his pious uncle.

The English versions of the " Oriental Tale " generally contained a heavy moralising element, with the notable exception of William Beckford's fantasy Vathek ( 1786 ), which had a decisive influence on the development of the Gothic novel.

Heinlein suffered from life-threatening peritonitis while working on this novel, and it is generally believed that his wife Virginia handled much of the editing.

Even within a species, the occurrence of novel forms within a population does not generally correlate with levels of genetic variation sufficient to account for all morphological diversity.

Crane's first novel was the 1893 Bowery tale Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, which critics generally consider the first work of American literary Naturalism.

The founder of this new culture is generally considered Carlo Alianello, who in his first novel, The Ensign ( l ' Alfiere ) ( 1942 ) expressed a serious indictment of the creators and unification policies of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

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.

Next, they go to Solaria, where they find that the Solarians — who have survived the Spacer-Settler conflicts by clever retreat detailed in Asimov's novel Robots and Empire — have engineered themselves into self-reproducing hermaphrodite beings, who have remained generally intolerant of human physical presence or contact.

In the modern age, " dime novel " has become a term to describe any quickly written, lurid potboiler and as such is generally used as a pejorative to describe a sensationalized yet superficial piece of written work.

The 1922 novel Ulysses by James Joyce has its first chapter named after Telemachus, and Stephen Dedalus is generally regarded as corresponding to Telemachus within the context of the novel.

The party's novel revolutionary zeal in the early 1950s were generally welcomed by the public.

The earlier battle of Guadalajara and the general chaos and disorder ( and, more generally, the doomed cause of Republican Spain ) serve as a backdrop to the novel: Robert Jordan notes, for instance, that he follows the Communists because of their superior discipline, an allusion to the split and infighting between anarchist and communist factions on the Republican side.

It was not widely read, and consequently Wells ' vastly more successful novel is generally credited as the seminal alien invasion story.

A novella generally features fewer conflicts than a novel, yet more complicated ones than a short story.

The novella is generally not as formally experimental as the long story and the novel can be, and it usually lacks the subplots, the multiple points of view, and the generic adaptability that are common in the novel.

Excellent Women is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1952 and generally acclaimed as the funniest and most successful of her comedies of manners.