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A common example of series fiction is a book series. Series fiction spans a wide range of genres, and is particularly common in adventure, mystery, romance, fantasy, and science fiction. While commonly associated with children's and young adult literature, series fiction has also been a significant feature of mainstream and genre fiction for
The Sea Wall (French: Un barrage contre le Pacifique) is a 1950 novel by the French writer Marguerite Duras. It was adapted for film in 1958 as This Angry Age and in 2008 as The Sea Wall . [ 1 ] Inspired largely by her own adolescence in French Indochina , Duras wrote this novel in 1950, just after divorcing her first husband and remarrying.
An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.
Some works in a series can stand alone—they can be read in any order, as each book makes few, if any, reference to past events, and the characters seldom, if ever, change. Many of these series books may be published in a numbered series. Examples of such series are works like The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and Nick Carter.
political philosophy, literary translation, classics political philosophy, philosophy of history, classics history of religion, philosophy of religion, political history: Robert Langdon series: Dan Brown: Professor Robert Langdon: symbology: A Series of Unfortunate Events: Lemony Snicket: Professor Fletcher: Sherlock Holmes Series: Arthur Conan ...
Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler), A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 book series) Mo Willems, We Are in a Book! (Elephant and Piggie series) Jon Stone, The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover; Emily Gravett, Wolves, Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears; Chris Wooding, Poison; Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Following is a list of multimedia franchises originating in print publications, including literary works, comic books, and comic strips.. To qualify for purposes of this list, the original media must have originated from the work of an identifiable author or set of co-authors, and must have been adapted into works in at least three forms of media, and must have two or more separate works in at ...
The Nantucket series (also known as the Nantucket trilogy or the Islander trilogy [1]) is a set of alternate history novels written by S. M. Stirling. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The novels focus on the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts which was transported back in time to 1250 BC due to something called "The Event".