Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.

Carson McCullers, after a long, painful illness that might have crushed a less-indomitable soul, has come back with an absolute gem of a novel which jumped high on best-seller lists even before official publication.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

Rieux returns to the theme at the end of the novel, after the epidemic is over, when the depth of the feelings of exile and deprivation is clear from the overwhelming joy with which long parted lovers and family members greet each other.

In chapter four of the second Inspector Hanaud novel, The House of the Arrow ( 1924 ), Hanaud declares sanctimoniously to the heroine, " You are wise, Mademoiselle … For, after all, I am Hanaud.

The novel was not published until shortly after Christie's death in 1976, some thirty-six years after it was originally written.

Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s novel A Canticle for Leibowitz centers on a monastic order called the Albertian Order of Leibowitz, named by its founder after Albertus Magnus and dedicated to preserving scientific knowledge lost after a nuclear war.

One of the major themes of the novel is the difficulty of soldiers to revert to civilian life after having experienced extreme combat situations.

The Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man also after a line in " On Wenlock Edge " and Arthur C. Clarke's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman's More Poems.

Disraeli turned towards literature after his financial disaster, motivated in part by a desperate need for money, and brought out his first novel, Vivian Grey, in 1826.

Thomas Carlyle translated Goethe ’ s novel into English, and after its publication in 1824, many British authors wrote novels inspired by it.

In the novel The Shape of Things to Come, published in 1933, H. G. Wells depicted Basic English as the lingua franca of a new elite which after a prolonged struggle succeeds in uniting the world and establishing a totalitarian world government.

In his semi-autobiographical novel Typee, he reports seeing shrunken heads and having strong evidence that the tribal leaders ceremonially consumed the bodies of killed warriors of the neighboring tribe after a skirmish.

Two decades after Frank Herbert's death, his son Brian Herbert, along with Kevin J. Anderson, published two sequels – Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ) – based on notes left behind by Frank Herbert for what he referred to as Dune 7, his own planned seventh novel in the Dune series.

* In Martin Caidin's novel, Cyborg, a test pilot is rebuilt after a horrendous crash, given new " bionic " limbs, and becomes a superspy.

At the very end of the novel, where Superman stands poised to destroy the United Nations, Norman McCay makes him realise that, when he abandoned Clark Kent fifteen years ago after the murder of Lois Lane by the Joker and retreated into his Superman self, he lost this instinctive morality and thus the ability to be the hero Superman.

This version of the character is more overtly unstable than in the novel, screaming and laughing incoherently at any given moment and even drinking the blood of a servant after removing a " heart plug.

Although the two parts are now normally published as a single work, Don Quixote, Part Two was a sequel published ten years after the original novel.

Philip Roth titled the second chapter of his novel " The Ghost Writer " Nathan Dedalus, after the novel's young protagonist Nathan Zuckerman.

A few weeks after his arrival, using a novel course of treatment, he restored the health of a young man whose death seemed inevitable.

* The protagonist of Stephen King's novel Duma Key exhibited symptoms of a condition similar to receptive aphasia after suffering brain damage in an industrial accident.

In 2005, author Anne Rice became involved in a flamewar of sorts on the review boards of online retailer Amazon. com after several reviewers posted scathing comments about her latest novel.

Even before the play had been fully written, Heyward was in discussions with George Gershwin for an operatic version of his novel, which appeared in 1935 as Porgy and Bess ( renamed to distinguish it from the play ).

George and Ira Gershwin, along with DuBose Heyward, based the libretto of their opera version, Porgy and Bess, not on the original novel, but on the play.

Alternative spellings and variants of the name itself include " Kiawa ," " Kittiwar " ( in DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy ), and " Kittiwah " ( in George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess ).

Among the many films she appeared in during this period were The Robe ( 1953 ), Young Bess ( 1953 ), Désirée ( 1954 ), The Egyptian ( 1954 ), Guys and Dolls ( 1955 ) – " in which she's delightfully proper ( and improper ) as the Salvation Army officer Sarah Brown " – The Big Country ( 1958 ), Elmer Gantry ( 1960 ), ( directed by her second husband, Richard Brooks ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), All the Way Home ( 1963 ) – a film of James Agee's novel, A Death in the Family – and The Happy Ending ( 1969 ), again directed by Brooks and for which she received her second Oscar nomination.

Another descendant of Heyward was DuBose Heyward ( 1885 – 1940 ), a poet, novelist and playwright who influenced the Southern Renaissance and is most well known for the 1925 novel and 1927 play Porgy, and the libretto to the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin and based on the play.

This novel was adapted and produced in 1927 as a play by the same name ( which he co-authored with his wife Dorothy ) and, in turn, the opera Porgy and Bess ( 1935 ) with music by George Gershwin.

" Heyward's biographer James M. Hutchisson characterizes Porgy as " the first major southern novel to portray blacks without condescension " and states that the libretto to Porgy and Bess was largely Heyward's work.

In the end of the novel Venters and Bess, " the rustler's girl ," escape to the East, while Lassiter, Fay, and Jane, pursued by both Mormons and rustlers, escape into a paradise-like valley by toppling a giant balancing rock, forever closing off the only way in or out.

Hugh is the protagonist portrayed in the 2007 historical fiction novel Hugh and Bess, by author Susan Higginbotham.

Samuel Smalls, the man upon whom the novel Porgy and subsequent opera Porgy and Bess are based, is buried in the cemetery beside James Island Presbyterian Church.

* Samuel Smalls, the man on whom DuBose Heyward based his novel Porgy and its subsequent George Gershwin written opera Porgy and Bess, is buried next to James Island Presbyterian Church.

* High Road to China ( 1983 ), starring Bess Armstrong and Tom Selleck-based on his novel only

*( Unnamed ): A hurricane striking the South Carolina setting is a major turning point of the 1925 novel Porgy, and its later adaptation, the subsequent 1935 opera Porgy and Bess, as well as the 1959 movie version.

At the beginning of the novel, Rieux's wife, who has been ill for a year, leaves for a sanatorium.

Laputa: Castle in the Sky ( 1986 ) recounts the adventure of two orphans seeking a magical castle-island that floats in the sky ; My Neighbor Totoro ( Tonari no Totoro, 1988 ) tells of the adventure of two girls and their interaction with forest spirits ; and Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1989 ), adapted from a novel by Eiko Kadono, tells the story of a small-town girl who leaves home to begin life as a witch in a big city.

At the end of the novel, Spenser leaves his father and uncles behind in Wyoming to attend college in Boston.

* In Charles Dickens's novel " The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit " the character of Augustus leaves a note addressed to his betrothed to the effect that he has sailed away to Van Diemen's Land, " Ere this reaches you, the undersigned will be -- if not a corpse -- on the way to Van Dieman's Land ".

The film is similar to the novel in most places, but leaves out some details, such as extended back stories for some characters.

* In Pearl S. Buck's 1931 novel The Good Earth, hero Wang Lung leaves his land to travel southward during a drought.

In the novel it is Achilles's son, Neoptolemus, who refuses to leave Philoctetes behind, but after having them returned, he leaves a single arrow with her, and returns to Greece.

The end of the novel is famous for its ambiguity, which leaves open the possibility that Irene has pushed Clare out the window, or that Clare has committed suicide.

The non-canon Next Generation novel Vendetta by Peter David shows her as having returned to the Repulse after she leaves the Enterprise.

The novel is also ironic in the cues that it leaves behind.

The novel leaves readers uncertain whether Joe Christmas or Joe Brown is the murderer.

In the novel, he leaves the League after witnessing the British Empire's use of biological warfare to destroy the Martians.

In his introduction to the novel, Vidal says the recent Supreme Court decision " leaves to each community the right to decide what is pornography.

A cave in Inwood Park is where Pete Hamill's protagonist in the 2003 novel Forever receives the gift of immortality as long as he never leaves Manhattan.

The novel ends as Iris dies, leaving the truth to be discovered in her unpublished autobiography that she leaves to her sole surviving granddaughter.

Here, madness takes Cardenio and he leaves for the Sierra Morena, and the novel continues in the present.

Scene of the historical novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz (" Quo Vadis "), entitled " Ligia leaves Aulus ' house ".

They remain involved even after Odo leaves to rejoin the Great Link-he returns to the station during the events depicted in the novel " Unity " disguised as a Trelian woman named Wex.

The novel itself leaves the reader questioning who was ( or were ) the victim ( s ) of life.

He leaves Oz at the end of the novel, again in a hot air balloon.

He comes from a family of gypsies, like in the novel, but in a dramatic change, his mother does not abandon him, but she is rather killed by Judge Claude Frollo, who leaves Quasimodo alive in the belltower when the Archdeacon of Notre Dame condemns him for chasing Quasimodo's mother to her death on the steps of Notre Dame, warning of the consequences if he kills the infant under the " eyes of Notre Dame ".

In the novel the spring thaw comes to represent a period of change in the characters ' emotional journeys, and when the wife eventually leaves her husband this coincides with the melting of the snow.

Early in the novel, he leaves his wife and children and goes to Paris, living a destitute but defiantly content life there as an artist ( specifically a painter ), lodging in run-down hotels and falling prey to both illness and hunger.

In the novel, Miss Trunchbull immediately leaves in fear of Magnus ' " ghost ".