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* ''[[Moby Dick]]'' includes chapters devoted to explaining various aspects of whaling life, as well as a cetology (study of whales) lesson that could fit into a biology textbook or encyclopedia. [[Non Sequitur Scene|There's also a chapter about chowder.]]
* Similarly, ''[[Les Misérables]]'' has extensive sections detailing the Paris sewers, the Battle of Waterloo, thieves' argot, cloistered orders of nuns...
* Until the final chapters, ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (novel)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' is pretty much a [[Romantic Comedy]] occasionally punctuated by fact-finding trips into Dumbledore's pensieve. This was only played up in [[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)|the movie]], which eliminated most of the pensieve adventures. Notably, the filmmakers added the attack on the Burrow because they thought some action was needed in the middle part of the story.
** Similarly, ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (novel)|Chamber of Secrets]]'' is kind of a horror story and ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (novel)|Order of the Phoenix]]'' is kind of a political drama/satire. Also, anything with [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood|the Dursleys]] leans on something of a [[Stepford Suburbia]] [[Black Comedy]].
* The ''[[Thursday Next]]'' books are... [[Genre Busting|sort of]] an urban fantasy mystery series about literature and the [[Meta Fiction]] thereof. Once per book, there's a chapter wherein Thursday teams up with Spike [[Meaningful Name|Stoker]] to fight vampires, ghosts, demons or what have you, usually just so she can pay the rent. The narration shifts to a style that would not be out of place in ''[[Dracula]]'' or the more serious modern horror novel. And then things are back to normal next chapter.
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