It is less generally realized that his Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer ( 1964 ) was a similar exercise, exploring theological questions through correspondence addressed to a fictional recipient, " Malcolm ", though this work may be considered a " novel " only loosely in that developments in Malcolm's personal life gradually come to light and impact the discussion.

* John Irving's novel A Prayer for Owen Meany mentions the narrator, John, teaching Tess of the d ' Urbervilles to high school students.

Gravesend is also briefly mentioned in John Irving's novel A Prayer for Owen Meany, noting that the fictitious town of Gravesend, New Hampshire, is named after the original Gravesend in Kent.

Reeman's debut novel, A Prayer for the Ship was published in 1958.

* A Prayer for Owen Meany, a novel by John Irving

In the novel A Prayer for the Damned, Fidelma considers renouncing her religious vows but decides against it.

* Teddybear Kilgore ( also written as " Kilgour " elsewhere in the text ), the fictional President of the Bishop Strachan School for Girls in the John Irving novel A Prayer for Owen Meany

The novel entitled Rou bu tuan ( Prayer mat of flesh ) even describes cross-species organ transplants for the sake of enhanced sexual performance.

His first role in a feature film was playing a thug in Say a Little Prayer ( 1993 ), based on the Robin Klein novel Came Back to Show You I Could Fly.

After his parents read through the novel ( A Prayer for Owen Meany ) they agreed to let him work on the film.

The Crow: Wicked Prayer is a 2005 American film directed by Lance Mungia and inspired by Norman Partridge's novel of the same title.

The film is loosely based on The Carnal Prayer Mat, a Chinese erotic novel by 17th century author and playwright Li Yu.

For a time, urging Breasted to give up his public relations work and take up writing instead, he hoped to persuade him to become his assistant in research for the labor novel ; ;

It is indeed true, as stated in the famous novel of our day, `` For Whom The Bell Tolls '', that `` no man is an island, entirely of itself ; ;

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.

For the novel, see Destry Rides Again ( novel ).

; Forgotten Futures VI: Victorian Villainy: A source collection for melodramatic adventures, including three plays, the novel A Bid For Fortune by Guy Boothby, some of E. W.

* In the timeline of Robert Heinlein's utopian novel For Us, the Living – written in 1939 but only published posthumously in 2003 – LaGuardia is elected President in 1951 and serves two terms as a militant reforming president, effectively nationalizing the banking system and instituting a system of Social Credit.

* A Deceit To Die For ( novel ) by Luke Montgomery ( author ) that revolves around the history of the Gospel of Barnabas

* For Whom the Bell Tolls, an Ernest Hemingway novel which tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer attached to a guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War.

As to what became of her star-crossed lovers, Rhett and Scarlett, after the novel ended, Mitchell did not know, and said, " For all I know, Rhett may have found someone else who was less difficult.

For example, P. Schuyler Miller called Arthur C. Clarke's 1961 novel A Fall of Moondust hard SF, and the designation remains valid even though a crucial plot element, the existence of deep pockets of " moondust " in lunar craters, is now known to be incorrect.

For example a group at MIT concluded that the planet Mesklin in Hal Clement's 1953 novel Mission of Gravity would have had a sharp edge at the equator, and a Florida high-school class calculated that in Larry Niven's 1970 novel Ringworld the topsoil would have slid into the seas in a few thousand years.

For the novel by John and Carole Barrowman, see Hollow Earth ( novel )

For bicameral humans, when habit did not suffice to handle novel stimuli and stress rose at the moment of decision, neural activity in the " dominant " ( left ) hemisphere was modulated by auditory verbal hallucinations originating in the so-called " silent " ( right ) hemisphere ( particularly the right temporal cortex ), which were heard as the voice of a chieftain or god and immediately obeyed.

For example, a stationary projector in the front would have projected an image of a church courtyard while a moving projector from behind would project the image of the phantom The Bleeding Nun, an image which came from the novel The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis.

For the next three years Mitchell worked exclusively on writing a Civil War-era novel whose heroine was named Pansy O ' Hara ( prior to publication Pansy was changed to Scarlett ).

For instance, the scene of Ekaterin's questioning with fast-penta begins from her viewpoint, but as the drug takes hold ( and the novel begins a new chapter ) it continues from Miles's viewpoint.

For example, the paperback editions of Cryptonomicon are over eleven hundred pages long with the novel containing various digressions, including a lengthy erotic story about antique furniture and stockings.

( For example, the title of the Perry Mason detective novel The Case of the Negligent Nymph ( 1956 ) by Erle Stanley Gardner is derived from this meaning of the word.

For example, the novel Ramage and the Rebels, by Dudley Pope is set in approximately 1800.

Persuasion ( novel ) | Persuasion, novel by Jane Austen .... For Sir Elliot, baronet, the hints of Mr Sheppard, his agent, was very unwelcome

The first novel that Heinlein wrote, For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs ( 1939 ), did not see print during his lifetime, but Robert James tracked down the manuscript and it was published in 2003.

Cuarón's feature, Children of Men, an adaptation of the P. D. James novel starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine, received wide critical acclaim, including three Academy Award nominations.

It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Donald Davis and Owen Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming ( uncredited ) and Gustav Machaty ( uncredited ).

The Virginian, a seminal 1902 western novel by Owen Wister, solved the problem by taking the side of the wealthy ranchers, creating a myth dealing with the themes of the Johnson County war but bearing little resemblance to the events.

The Spoils of Poynton ( 1897 ) is a half-length novel that describes the struggle between Mrs. Gereth, a widow of impeccable taste and iron will, and her son Owen over a houseful of precious antique furniture.

Blacklisted by the Hollywood studios, Lardner worked for the next couple of years on the novel, The Ecstasy of Owen Muir ( 1954 ).

* Resistance ( Owen Sheers novel ), a 2007 historical novel by Owen Sheers

Grey read Owen Wister ’ s great Western novel The Virginian.

In 2002, Cumyn published his first novel for children, The Secret Life of Owen Skye, about three brothers whose adventures always seem to spin out of control in unusual ways.

Dear Sylvia, the long-awaited third and final novel in the Owen Skye series for children, was published in 2008.

Less frequently used is U. N. Owen as for example used in the Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None.

Starchild ’ s sales never matched those of Cerebus or Bone, and Sim eventually dissolved ties with Owen — but not before responding to Owen's " Serbius " spoof by giving Starchild ’ s boggle-eyed barkeeper character Martin Humble a surprisingly substantial role in the graphic novel Guys.

* The Virginian ( novel ), a novel by American author Owen Wister

In Welsh ( Cymraeg ), a late-riser may be referred to as a saith cysgadur — seven sleeper — as in the 1885 novel Rhys Lewis by Daniel Owen, where the protagonist is referred to as such in chapter 37, p. 294 ( Hughes a ' i Fab, Caerdydd, 1948 ).

Kingdom of the Sun was to have been a tale of a greedy, selfish emperor ( voiced by Spade ) who finds a peasant ( voiced by Owen Wilson ) who looks just like him ; the emperor swaps places with the peasant for fun, much as in author Mark Twain's archetypal novel The Prince and the Pauper.

Remington completed another novel in 1902, John Ermine of the Yellowstone, a modest success but a definite disappointment as it was completely overshadowed by the best seller The Virginian, written by his sometime collaborator Owen Wister, which became a classic Western novel.

" Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " B " rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " Hopper still hasn't learned how to pace a movie, but working from Charles Williams ' 1952 novel Hell Hath No Fury he comes up with a reasonably diverting hothouse yarn.

They had a son, Owen Wister, who became a popular American novelist and author of the 1902 western novel, The Virginian, now considered a classic of the western migration.

Set around the year 1886, and loosely based on the 1902 novel by Owen Wister, the series revolved around the tough foreman of the Shiloh Ranch, played by James Drury.