* Constantinople provides the setting of much of the action in Umberto Eco's 2000 novel Baudolino.

Severin also provides evidence in his book that another publicised case of a real-life marooned Miskito Central American man named only as Will may have caught Defoe's attention, inspiring the depiction of Man Friday in his novel.

An almost literal use of the phrase appears in popular fiction within H. G. Wells ' 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come, where the protagonist finds a manuscript written in shorthand that provides a key to understanding additional scattered material that is sketched out in both longhand and on typewriter.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, in his 1916 novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( filmed in 1921 and in 1962 ), provides an early example of this interpretation, writing " The horseman on the white horse was clad in a showy and barbarous attire.

The song provides a major organizational motif for the novel.

* 1902: Although not explicitly cited, the Congo River provides the setting for Joseph Conrad's 1902 novel Heart of Darkness.

The novel covers the years 1945 to 1955, and also provides the back story of Vito Corleone from early childhood to adulthood.

The original novelette " Ender's Game " provides a small snapshot of Ender's experiences in Battle School and Command School ; the full-length novel encompasses more of Ender's life before, during, and after the war, and also contains some chapters describing the political exploits of his older siblings back on Earth.

Margaret Landon's novel Anna and the King of Siam ( 1944 ) provides a fictionalised look at Anna Leonowens's years at the royal court, developing the abolitionist theme that resonated with her American readership.

While the book provides the courtship as a backstory, the real novel begins upon his retirement.

Charles Dickens provides a very graphical depiction of the death of the shopkeeper Mr. Krook by spontaneous combustion in his novel Bleak House ( 1852 ).

Thus it provides an intense, detailed exploration of its subject, providing to some degree both the concentrated focus of the short story and the broad scope of the novel.

James Sallis praised Lust Lizard, saying that Moore's novel provides " all the best comic writing, something beyond jokes, caricature, spinning plates and crazy-tilt towers, something intangible that vanishes whenever we try to look directly at it: some sense, perhaps, that we're still able to rescue from the ever-increasing detritus of our culture a decent, simple humanity.

Kem Nunn's novel, Tijuana Straits, provides insight into the culture of the border and surfing in Imperial Beach and the Tijuana River Valley, and the environmental problems that impact residents of Tijuana, Imperial Beach and Coronado.

The 2005 movie Capote, directed by Bennett Miller, is also about the author Truman Capote, and provides great insight into Mr. Capote, his writing of the novel, and the crimes in Holcomb.

The leitmotif in this novel provides unity as the character of Stephen matures.

Wetherby provides the setting for the novel Oldbury ( 1869 ) by Annie Keary.

The Virgin New Adventures novel Lungbarrow by Marc Platt provides some additional history on the Hand during the early years of its creation on Gallifrey.

* Julio Cortázar provides a ( presumably false ) history of nail cutters in his novel Hopscotch:

He also used the title for a novel which he provides for download on his website.

The novel The Drowner by Robert Drewe provides a fictionalised account of O ' Connor and the building of the pipeline.

Ishmael provides little about his personal background before his decision at the beginning of the novel to journey to Nantucket, Massachusetts to enlist as a sailor on a whaler.

An adventure novel provides an illustration of the concept.

In these countries, the mere use of a computer is sufficient to make a business method patentable even if the computer is not being used in a novel or inventive way and only the underlying business method provides the patentable features.

Bukharin's confession and his motivation became subject of much debate among Western observers, inspiring Koestler's acclaimed novel Darkness at Noon and a philosophical essay by Maurice Merleau-Ponty in Humanism and Terror.

Behind that novel combination is a purposeful effort arising in human motivation.

The novel reflects the imperialist ambitions of Japan at the time, and foreshadowed the Russo-Japanese War that followed in 1904, driven by much the same motivation.

The concept of motivation can be instilled in children at a very young age, by promoting and evoking interest in a certain book or novel.

Also a subtle twist at the end of the novel can reveal that a lot more was going on than the reader initially suspected: Cat Shannon, the central figure of The Dogs of War, turns out to have had his own agenda all the time ; Adam Munro of The Devil's Alternative finds out that he was not a player but a pawn to people in high places ; in The Odessa File, the reporter's true motivation is revealed at the end, and a number of events in Icon turn out to have been committed by people other than those who the reader had been led to suppose.

The novel focuses on child murder ( with its possible sexual motivation ), the irresponsibility of teenagers and the crisis in crime and punishment.

Scarlett's motivation in the early part of the novel center around her desire to win the affection of Ashley, despite the fact that both of them marry others.

Critics assert that Maggie's need for love and acceptance is her underlying motivation throughout The Mill on the Floss, and the conflicts that arise in the novel often stem from her frustrated attempts at gaining this acceptance.

From an evolutionary psychology perspective they can classified as overconsumption of evolutionary novel substances that are harmful but strongly activates evolutionarily old reward systems ( drugs, tobacco, alcohol, and refined salt, fat, and carbohydrates ); overconsumption of evolutionary novel technologies with harmful side effects such as modern transportation causing reduced physical activity ; and underconsumption of evolutionary novel technologies that are beneficial but have no intrinsic motivation ( condoms, contraception, soap, bednets, toilets, and gas stoves instead of wood burning ).

In the novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, usual economic incentives have disappeared: Whuffie has replaced money, providing a motivation for people to do useful and creative things.

The theme of police officer suicide, which runs through many of Wambaugh's books, provides a grim undercurrent to the black humor of the novel and suggests a sub-conscious motivation for their activities.

New York Times reviewer Villiers Gerson described his 1953 novel The Transcendent Man as " contain enough twists to afford the reader a few hours ' entertainment " despite being " oversimplified in motivation.

His first novel, In a Hail of Bullets, accrued at least 21 rejections before being accepted by a publisher ( he keeps the first rejection letter he received framed on his office wall as motivation ) and winning the Nom DePlume Society's Tom Straw Award for Mystery Literature.

Symons highlighted the distinction between the classic puzzler mystery, associated with such writers as Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, and the more modern " crime novel ," which puts emphasis on psychology and motivation.

The psychological novel is not content to state what happens but goes on to explain the motivation of this action.

Jinny ( Ginevra, in the novel ) is adopted like Raymond and Carol, and she also becomes the prime motivation for the murderer, whereas in the novel she was Mrs. Boynton's only biological daughter.

B. Priestley ’ s 1930 novel Angel Pavement: In October 1978 vocalist Danny Wigley expressed the motivation driving the Desperate Bicycles ' independent stance: “ The biggest hurdle is just believing you ’ ve still got some control over your life, that you can go out and do it ”.