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| Orson Welles |
U.S. actor, screenwriter, producer, and critically acclaimed motion picture director who first gained national recognition for his role in the 1938 radio broadcast adaptation of H.G. Wells's novel, The War of the Worlds (b.1915--d.1985). |
| Orwellian |
of, concerning, or resembling George Orwell, his work, or esp. the totalitarian regime portrayed in his novel 1984. |
| personae |
the characters in a play, novel, opera, or other work of fiction; dramatis personae. |
| plot1 |
the story line or sequence of events in a novel, play, or the like. [2/6 definitions] |
| Pollyanna |
in an early twentieth-century novel by Eleanor H. Porter, the heroine and title character, who is always happy and optimistic. [1/2 definitions] |
| potboiler |
(informal) a low-quality, sensationalistic novel, film, or the like, produced to make money. |
| Robinson Crusoe |
in an eighteenth-century novel by Daniel Defoe, the title character, who is shipwrecked and survives for many years on a tropical island. |
| roman |
a modern novel. [1/2 definitions] |
| roman à clef |
novel with a key (French); a fictionalized account of actual people and events. |
| romance |
a love affair, or a depiction of one in a novel, story, or film. [1/7 definitions] |
| roman-fleuve |
stream-novel (French); a long novel, often in several volumes, that follows the story of a family, group, or the like over several generations. |
| SARS-coV-2 |
abbreviation of "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2," the scientific name for the novel coronavirus which first appeared in 2019 and causes the disease Covid-19. |
| scene |
the location or setting of a story, as in a poem, play, or novel. [1/8 definitions] |
| seriocomic |
serious and comical at the same time, as a novel or play. |
| Simon Legree |
in the mid-nineteenth-century novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a cruel overseer and slave dealer. [1/2 definitions] |
| Stephen Crane |
U.S. journalist and writer, acclaimed for his novel The Red Badge of Courage, (b.1871--d.1900). |
| story1 |
a work of fiction that is shorter and less complex than a novel; short story. [1/7 definitions] |
| Tom Sawyer |
a novel by Mark Twain published in 1876. [2 definitions] |
| Uncle Tom |
the title character in Uncle Tom's Cabin, a mid-nineteenth century novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom is a black slave whose religious beliefs move him to forgive his oppressors. [1/2 definitions] |
| Yahoo |
in the eighteenth-century novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, one of a race of brutish, degraded, humanlike creatures. [1/3 definitions] |
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