"His curious, humorous, didactic and dazzling book bears the subtitle 'Not a Novel,' " Mr. Updike said in the review.

He authored a series of didactic books in 7 volumes on Physical chemistry called Introduction to Physical Chemistry printed between 1976-1984.

Although The Fairchild Family has gained a reputation in the twentieth century as an oppressively didactic book, in the early nineteenth century it was viewed as delightfully realistic.

His prose works include polemical writings against the Lutheran missionaries and didactic religious books for the instruction of Catholics.

Emblem books are a category of mainly didactic illustrated book printed in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries, typically containing a number of emblematic images with explanatory text.

Each domiciliary library has a quantity of about 150 volumes, made up of: didactic books and of infantile, Brazilian and foreign pertaining to school support, literature.

It is in books more specifically didactic that we can follow out the effect, and distinguish and weigh and compare.

Original Stories gained a reputation in the 20th century as an oppressively didactic book and was derided by early scholars of children's literature such as Geoffrey Summerfield.

Directed by Mr. Lapine, this revival remains as mixed a blessing as the fulfilled wishes of the show's dissatisfied characters, with its overcrowded and overly didactic book.

But though "The Novel" has big problems, which I'll get to by and by, it is far more than a narrowly didactic how-to book.