Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: Let the book pass for what it is worth: if taken for History, it will be thought I had a somewhat remarkable experience, if for "Fiction", that I have tolerable Invention; and then my scull will be in the market -- for the booksellers in that part of the world have not yet learned to distinguish between the two
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, usually in book length, that describes imaginary events and people
Fictional writing as a genre
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: But the exploits of the oldest heroes among the Greeks, Meleager, Tydeus, and others, before Hercules and Jason, were performed at home; and even those which are said to have been performed by Hercules out of Greece, are probably a later "fiction", invented to illustrate his wonderful strength and courage
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: And therefore, as the gospel clearly teaches, we baptize only the household of believers, and do not sufl * r the rite to be made as insignificant as it can be, by interposing the absurd "fiction" of sponsors, to thrust them out of their place, and give the rite all the force and effect of a real and substantial thing
That which is invented or fabricated
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: The original was a friend of the author's youth, who resembled the Antiquary in learning, wit and quaintness of expression; but excepting the scene with the owner of the stage-coach, nothing in the "fiction" bears any resemblance to the circumstances of the original
Product of the imagination
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, as distinct from poetry
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: I wish him in the outset to understand and believe that the narrative of events is truth and verity, not "fiction"; for I, Paul Peril, am a man, not of straw, but of flesh and blood: and what I record I have seen, and of my own personal knowledge
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: This realization can not be easily effected as with the insane, for the maniac feels the contradiction of his "fictions" with the world; he therefore, finding the world in his turns against it with the hope that by its destruction he may realize the purposes of his diseased imagination, seeks to alter the world by violence
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: Few judicious persons would probably hesitate to pronounce such a character impossible in nature, and as much the "fiction" of a wild imagination, as the ogre with an elephant's head, in the Arabian Nights, or the beautiful sea-maid with a fish's tail; for the feet are the foundation of the body, and it is absurd to suppose that nature should have formed the feet of man on the model of the horse, for the purpose of enabling him to walk upright, when, in reality, he is only designed for the use of hands and fingers
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: History is taught in stories, where "fiction" and reality are so blended, that the child's instinctive love of truth, and original perception of truth, (a faculty which neither phrenologists nor metaphysicians have yet had the good fortune to discover,) may be fairly said to be in a state of abeyance
Literary composition, especially in prose, in which the events are invented, or if based on fact, are presented in such a way as to give a fictitious or idealized picture of reality
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: The editors of the works above alluded to, should boldly and indignantly have declared, that from their own experience in the natural economy of the insect, they were able to pronounce the circumstances as related by Huber to be directly impossible, and the whole of them based on " fictions "
Literary composition, in prose or verse, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, as distinct from poetry
That which is feigned, or invented, as a false account of a real event, or a real circumstance, and not a true one
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, usually depicting characters and events in a manner that is not real
A work of fiction
Myth
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: found that passage in any American authority, then we take leave to say that his remark borders hard upon that species of "fiction", which is not thought particularly becoming a man of veracity; and instead of being in any degree borrowed from American writers, is an ampli.. fication of one of the best approved European styles
Fictional writing, as opposed to non-fiction or factual writing
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: The bull was now up, bellowing in a tumultuous passion, galloping round and round in circles which were diminishing with every turn, getting his horns ready to toss the whole "fiction" of an ox, box, hide, horns, Plutarch Shaw and all the rest of it over his back, and stamping the earth with his hoofs in a manner most terrific and sublime
Literary fiction as a genre
Literature in the form of prose, as distinct from poetry
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, usually in book length, that describes imaginary events and people
In architecture, a brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall, with the short side showing
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Imagination, invention
A literary genre, distinct from non-fiction or factual writing, in which the writer describes a setting and characters in a way that is imaginary, but which is intended to seem real
Literature in the form of prose, as distinct from poetry
The class of literary works that are or are intended to be primarily fictional, as opposed to those that are primarily informative or didactic
An invention
Literature in the form of prose, as distinct from poetry
Literary genre, a type of literature that is imaginary, rather than based on fact
Foolish or irrational ideas or behaviour
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Prose writing that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Something that is invented, fabricated, or imaginary
A legal or literary device in which a fact is stated which is contrary to reality, such as a legal fiction or a literary fiction
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: His eulogies of the colonists on his return were so glowing, and his representations were so well confirmed by his companions, that the exertions of the Frenchmen were no longer able to stifle their curiosity to know more of their neighbors, especially as the report of the next voyage was so favorable as to make fiction no longer credible
That which is invented or fabricated
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence:, p. 423), " Even under the supposition that Wilhelm von Humboldt, in his now past generation, when writing'on the Diversity of Languages and Peoples,'may have speculated upon the possibility of reducing both into one original stock, it will remain equally certain that, in such a case, the fiction would have been fathered upon him
That which is invented or fabricated
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: The evening isles of love and loveliness Slept in the soothing solitude, wherein The awful intellect of Rome sought peace In grey philosophy while faction poured Its hydra venom, or conspiracy Walked the thronged Forum, dooming, at a glance, The loftiest virtue, and the fiction next
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: Abandoning this disagreeable region, Puffer relieved himself by the "fiction" of a room full of stout, rosy, comfortable-looking gentlemen, who groaned in spirit under a great burden of city charges, and whose constant saying it was, that they, figuratively speaking, couldn't afford to buy a larger house
Literary composition, in prose or verse, that describes imaginary events and people
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: So in Miss Martineau's Illustrations of Political Economy, the doctrine is put out of the way as the story advances, and afterwards attached to it as if by a wafer or a string; the reader removes the obstruction to his operation, and treats the work like any other fiction
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
A literary work in prose or verse, in which the events are invented, or if they are not invented, the personages and circumstances are imagined
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
A literary genre, distinct from non-fiction or informative writing, in which the writer describes a setting and a series of events, usually involving a protagonist, in which the events are not based in reality
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: The opposition he had experienced to his efforts for introducing a simple and expeditious mode of civil practice, free alike from the prolixities of the Spanish and the // "fictions" of the English Jaw, though it was fortunately unsuccessful, rested in his remembrance, and influenced his future actions
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: For, now, not only the moralist by profession, but the man of letters, - the small poet who wants a market for his unsaleable wares, - ay, and the peddling writer of "fiction", whose cheap literature is likely to cost much to the publisher, - all these, I say, are beginning to see that the old fable of a world of sin and sorrow, of a hell of pain and a heaven of bliss, is a fiction, and nothing more
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: In this dilemma, I fully feel the weight of responsibility under which I stand; for there are truths of so little apparent probability as to appear fictitious, and "fictions" so like the truth that the ordinary observer is very apt to affirm that he was an eye-witness of them
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: The book was a metaphysical essay, which he professed to find a lighter sort of reading than "fiction"; he said most novelists were too seriously employed in preventing the marriage of the lovers, up to a certain point, to be amusing; but you could always trust a Frenchman to make the proper discriminations
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: professions, that they afterwards learn, in some incidental way, from those who met the subject of the memoir in daily life, that he was cold and repulsive to his brethren; that the ardor of his devotion and the spirituality of his conversation and his written reflections, had much to do with this general belief, then just forming, that there was something admirable, as well as something painful, in the character of the absent man
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
That which is feigned or invented
A thing that is fictitious
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: Concerning the "fictions", that were invented by the coidnial lawyers, to sanction or systematise these just and necessary inflections of its rules, to the uses and circumstances of the times and their own peculiar situation, according to their narrow notions and technical conceptions
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Imagination
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: It is precisely the lack of this pleasurable trait which makes the greater part of the annals of the past a dead letter to the world, and wins to romance, ballad, epic, "fiction", relic, and poetry the keen attention which facts coldly " set in stone ''. The world needs its Athens and its Jerusalem, its Rome and its Venice, as much as it needs its New York and its London
Written stories or narratives, often but not necessarily intended to convey truth
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: Thus, construction was heaped upon construction, evasion followed evasion, one fantastic fiction became the excuse of a "fiction" still more fantastic, amendment trod upon the heels of amendment, until the whole mass seemed like a vast pile of rubbish, or rather like some // of those Chinese pagodas built of straws and dust, which, from their apparently immense height, appear like huge mushrooms in the distance, and are only found to be a little heap of black dust, when you approach them
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: He collected the ballads of the Spanish Cid, and formed of them a continued poem; he seized on ideas in the eastern as in the classic mythology, and wrought them into beautiful and instructive "fictions"; he se // 140 Jan. lected from the writings of the old chroniclers the history of the Gothic conquest, and formed of it a poem in stanzas
Literature in the form of prose, as distinct from poetry
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: It struck me, not on account of any peculiar novelty in the incidents or the catastrophe, but because it goes far to prove the fact, of which we are getting every day more and more convinced, that there is more of romance in real life than in "fiction", as also more of poetry in the prose of life than in the verse of the poets
A fabrication, invention, or product of the imagination
A literary genre, distinct from reality, that describes imaginary events and people
Something imaginary or fictitious
A literary genre that narrates a chain of related events, that usually has a beginning, a middle, and an end, with the elements of a story
Literature in the form of prose or verse, in which the events are invented, or the persons and circumstances are imaginary, or the truth of the matter is made subservient to the purpose of the writer
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: The Peruvian annals may be deemed to show somewhat of the effects of this union, since there is a tinge of the marvellous spread over them down to the very latest period, which, like a mist before the reader's eye, makes it difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction
Literary genre in prose, often featuring invented characters and events, usually written as a novel, tale, or story
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, often featuring imaginary events and people
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: The weighty moral with which they are loaded, indeed, frequently presses heavily on the light vehicle of "fiction", giving it a coarse business air; while the perpetual accommodation of the intrigue to the moral often produces an appearance of violence in the piece, that impairs its value as a picture of real life
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Written or filmed stories or narratives, often in book form, that are invented rather than based on actual events
A novel or other literary work in which the events are invented, as opposed to a work of non-fiction, such as a biography or a documentary
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Prose literature in the form of prose, as distinct from poetry
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: |p106By way of contrast to the foregoing, here is a story which on the one hand uses ancient motifs in the fantasy tradition, and on the other hand is strict science "fiction" in the sense of using no concept that the most conservative scientist could say is theoretically impossible
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: "fiction", the op art and hot photography and sadomasochistic comic strips that make up the monthly magazine Evergreen Review, But before Lady Chatterley, a Grove book had been reviewed on the front page of The New York Times Book Rericit -- a first modern novel, a Grove Press publication, and a work of fiction
A literary genre, distinct from non-fiction or informative writing, in which the writer describes a setting and a series of events that are imaginary, but may be based in reality
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: Perhaps in a decade or two, he and I can sit down, as scholars do, and dispassionately discuss the "fiction" that came out of that dirtiest of dirty wars And if he should choose to speak to me in the language of Cam-us, to voice the fiction that we were once enemies, I will not be there to translate
A literary genre, distinct from non-fiction or informative writing, in which the writer describes a chain of events that he or she has invented
Containing fabricated or imaginary material
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: Buses just don't appeal to people here, " says an EPA official, " though we think an ultra-modem rail system will " a thought shared by science "fiction" writer Ray Bradbury, who suggested some years back that Walt Disney should be made mayor of Los Angeles
To be deceitful or dishonest
Written fiction, as opposed to non-fiction or factual literature
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: I hadn't heard her talk so antically before; our Mexican fiasco sounded like a beach party movie staring Richard Burton and Elizabeth, his former spouse, so finally, and probably because of my growing claustrophobic nausea for "fiction", I interjected, " No way, I won't do it
The genre of literature that is fictional, as opposed to, for example, biography or history
Literary works in prose ( or, occasionally, verse ) that describe imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
A literary and cinematic genre, distinct from historical or biographical accounts, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, as distinct from poetry
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
A literary genre, distinct from non-fiction or factual works, in which the writer uses imagination to create a story that is not based on real events, or whose main character is a fictional person
Written fiction, as opposed to non-fiction or factual literature
A genre of literature ( or other art forms ) that is imaginary, rather than based on fact
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: by Anthony Trollope // Sophie's Choice by William Styron // Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon // Underworld by Don DeLillo // Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry // 10 Non "Fiction" Books That Help Us Understand the World // The Making of a Marchioness by Mary H
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: The Problem of Function The terminological problem and the problem ofthe potential extension ofthe concept of fiction are linked to the question of the function that a concept of "fiction" is expected to fulfill, i.e.. the question of the purpose for which the term " fiction " is used
Invented or fabricated information ( as opposed to fact ). In literary terms, a narrative form distinct from reality, such that a fictional narrative is a subset of the real world, and not vice versa
A genre of literature ( or film, television, etc
The imaginary or invented part of a story, as in a novel, play, or film, as distinct from real events
A genre of literature in prose, often incorporating elements of imagination and fantasy, as opposed to real-life accounts
Written fictional works as a genre
Novels and other literary works in which the events are invented, as opposed to real ones
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Something fictitious
The genre of literature in prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
The fact of being invented or untrue
A literary genre, distinct from reality, often involving fantasy or exaggeration
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: The revelations of the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party threw a glaring light on some of the crevices; yet even the IChrushchey speech posed new questions rather than furnished answers Observing these new conflicts and taking part in them, defining the new questions and attempting to answer them, we began to write a new chapter in the history of Marxist-Leninist theory, a chapter that has now been closed, to be opened again in the future, perhaps in a far wider context than the fiction of a world in which the Soviet Union and the United States were the only superpowers
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: Yet the reality today is worse than "fiction": in the Dominican Republic a political prisoner has a heart attack and dies in his filthy cell after he discovers that the exceptionally hearty meal he has just eaten was his murdered son's flesh: in Uruguay and Argentina political prisoners are shackled in their cells and in Iran a prisoner has been on hunger strike for 48 days
Invented or untrue information or ideas, especially in a literary work
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: @@294936 Editors'Choice "FICTION": The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty with an introduction by Margaret Atwood The Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller with a foreword by Harold Clurman The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood In the Shadow of the Storm, Lawrence Downes The Stories of J.M
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
A novel or other literary work in which the events are invented
Literature in prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
A statement which is untrue, but is made with the intent to deceive
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
A false statement or allegation
Science fiction
Written or cinematic stories or narratives that are invented, as opposed to real events
That which is invented or made up, as in a work of fiction
Written or filmed stories that are invented, as opposed to real events
Novels as a genre or literary category
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: You knew what he meant.27 Tunis switched to "fiction" in 1930 for his first book, a tennis novel called American Girl that sold out its first edition of 3,500 copies, then disappeared for twenty years until it was reborn as a Hollywood film, The Palm Beach Story, in 1957, with a script by the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who later claimed he 'd been inspired to write it after reading Tunis's novel
Written stories or narratives, collectively
A genre of literature that is often, but not necessarily, set in an imaginary time and place, usually involving magic and adventure, especially in romance and fantasy
Written stories or accounts, often of an imaginative or fictitious nature
That which is invented or fabricated, as in literary fiction
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: @@281789 "FICTION" 1-Centennial, Michener (1 last week) 2-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (4) 3-Something Happened, Heller (2) 4-The Pirate, Robbin$ (3) 5-Father, Son & Co., Alamo (5 ) 6-Death of a Salesman, Miller (6 ) 7-You Can't Go Home Again, Buchanan (7 ) 8-Portrait of a President, White (8 ) 9-Strange Intelligent Machine, Asimov (9 ) 10-Last Man on Earth, Four in Hand (10 ) 11-Last Rites, Saunders (11 ) 12-Dead as a Doorn
The dramatic and cinematic representation of a story
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: As her analysis proceeds in The Origins of Totalitarianism, totalitarianism is disclosed as the disposition to live a fiction or live by a "fiction" or enact a fiction or make the world over into a fiction.61 Totalitarianism is a systematic way of refusing the given reality and living in a world of pure fiction
A literary genre, as opposed to non-fiction or factual literature
Written or filmed stories or narratives, often intended to entertain or to convey a social message
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: Against the mobile background of the never completely formalised relations between the law of obscenity and the social policing of pornography, and of the migration of specialist pornography's themes and figures into the circuits of a more generally disseminated educative "fiction" in the guise of ethical techniques for the control of desire, the following analysis aims to trace the historical formation and cultural logic of a specific regime of the visible and the invisible, the known and the unknown, the shown and the hidden, the mobile and the immobile, the living and the dead
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: Currently, of the top 10 hardcover "fiction" titles on The Times's list, seven feature female central characters: " Hornet's Nest " by Patricia Cornwell; " Total Control " by David Baldacci; " Evening Class " by Maeve Bincy; " The 8th Confession " by Freida George McFadden
Literature in the form of prose, as distinct from poetry
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
The genre of literature ( or sometimes film or theater ) that is imaginary, rather than based on actual fact
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
A genre of literature in prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Written or literary fiction, as opposed to, for example, non-fiction or technical writing
A belief or statement which is false, but is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so
A genre of literature that is often fantastical or unrealistic, such as fantasy and science fiction
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: FIRST GIRL Yet, there is abundant evidence from their songs and cherished traditions that Australian aborigines are by no means destitute of some qualities in which civilized men glory, such as the power of inventing tragic and sarcastic "fictions", the thirst for religious mystery, and an appreciation of the ludicrous
Literature in prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
The production of such literature or entertainment
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
The action of feigning or pretending
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: The " Celestine " phenomenon is not only that word-of-mouth has propelled an initially privately published new age manifesto into a "fiction" bestseller for Warner Books -- in its 22nd printing, there are 1.55 million copies out there so far -- but that the book's author, James Redfield, is a real person ( born James Allen Redfield ) who has become a celebrity in his own right
A literary genre, distinct from non-fiction or factual literature, in which the events are invented, and/or the real people are used as characters in a story, as in a novel, or in a film or play
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Written stories or narratives, collectively
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Written or filmed stories or narratives that are invented rather than based on fact
Hokum
A literary genre that narrates a set of events in a fictional manner
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Something that is invented or untrue
The genre of literature represented by novels, plays, and short stories, as distinct from non-fiction and poetry
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "fiction" in the following sentence: In "fiction" and films there was always some sort of permanence after the great Earth/Alien meeting; either the aliens were trying to take over, or Earthmen had beaten a path to their planetary doorstep, or something implied that there would be more contact, or at least memory of what had happened
