* The novel Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years takes place from April 30, 1997 to May 2, 1998.

* In Adrian Tomine's graphic novel Shortcomings, Ben Tanaka, who struggles with his Asian-American identity, is from Corvallis, Oregon.

His 1992 anthology Uncanny Banquet was notable for including the first ever reprint of the obscure 1914 horror novel The Hole of the Pit by Adrian Ross.

Thomas Mann in his novel Doctor Faustus ( 1943 ) has the fictional German composer Adrian Leverkühn attempt to write an opera on Love's Labour's Lost.

* Blood of the Mantis, a 2009 Fantasy novel by British author Adrian Tchaikovsky ( and set in a fictional universe where different human races are modeled on different insects ) is dedicated to Fabre.

The novel was first adapted as a 1928 silent film in 1928 by Adrian Brunel and Alma Reville and directed by Brunel and Basil Dean.

However, he bitterly regretted this when Barry became not only a successful poet, but author of a hit novel Dork's Diary which revolved around a loser called Aiden Vole ( a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Adrian Mole books themselves ).

Adrian tries to turn his defeat into victory by creating a fictional character, the " failed writer " Kent Barry, in a novel that is never published.

In addition to the staging of Marlowe's play, the book references the Thomas Mann novel Doctor Faustus, which is about a composer named Adrian Leverkühn who intentionally contracts syphilis.

Cruz starred as Adrian in the film Ode ( 2007 ), based on the novel Ode to Lata by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla.

Thomas Mann spent some time there in 1895 and, two years later, during the long harsh summer of 1897, he stayed over again, with his brother Heinrich Mann, in a sojourn that provided the backdrop, nearly half a century later, for Adrian Leverkühn's pact with the Devil in Mann's novel Doktor Faustus

* The Children's Hospital, a 2006 novel by Chris Adrian

Their brother Adrian was not allowed to go on an expedition to Godrevy Lighthouse, just as in the novel James looks forward to visiting the lighthouse and is disappointed when the trip is cancelled.

This incident inspired a similar scene in the beginning of Stephen King's novel It, where three homophobic teenagers throw an openly gay man, Adrian Mellon, over a bridge and into the Kenduskeag, there to be set upon and murdered by the monster Pennywise.

* Lolita ( 1997 film ), a film directed by Adrian Lyne, also adapted from the novel

* The White: Last Days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson 1911 – 1913, a novel by Adrian Caesar

It was directed by Philip Saville and written by Adrian Hodges, based on the 1980 novel by Julian Barnes.

* Franz Seitz ’ s 1982 adaptation of the novel for West German television starred Jon Finch as Adrian Leverkühn.

Published in 2004 by Penguin Books, Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction is Sue Townsend's sixth full Adrian Mole novel ( as opposed to and the Small Amphibians and the Guardian serial ).

There are some indications scattered through the novel that Adrian is still in love with her, as he was throughout most of the earlier books.

The novel ends tragically with Adrian and Nicole falling beneath a pool cover ( while trying to find the abducted children ) in winter and being unable to break through to the air.

In 2009, he played the character of Adrian Veidt in Zack Snyder's Watchmen, and also appeared in the drama A Single Man ( 2009 ) ( based on the Christopher Isherwood novel ).

He first appeared in the novel Pilgrimage to Hell by Jack Adrian.

* Mole, an anthropomorphic mole, a main character in the children's novel The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

In Book II chapter 28 of Stendhal's novel Le Rouge et le Noir, Julien and the woman he pretends to court, Madame de Fervaques, watch the opera Manon Lescaut while Julien is really thinking about his other lovers, Madame de Rênal and Mathilde de la Mole.

A major character of Alexandre Dumas's novel La Reine Margot, la Môle is transformed into Joseph-Hyacinthe Boniface de Lerac de la Mole, a Protestant nobleman saved by Queen Marguerite during the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

* Old Mole ( 1914 ) novel

Her 1930 novel Miss Mole won the James Tait Black Award for fiction.

In Sue Townsend's novel The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole ( 1982 ), Adrian's class starts singing " Ten Green Bottles " on the bus during a school trip.

She is a citizen of the Culture in the novel Use of Weapons, the novella The State of the Art, and is hinted at in the novel Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks.

* Weapons of the Wolfhound ( teenage novel about Vikings set in the Hebrides and Iceland ) Paperback and eBook ISBN 1-84319-268-3

The novel states that the Special Weapons Dalek is used only in extreme situations and only the Emperor can maintain complete control over it.

The Special Weapons Dalek is also mentioned in the novel War of the Daleks.

* Sonja Hemphill: Admiral of the Red, Royal Manticoran NavyAlthough not seen in the novel, Admiral Hemphill ( head of the Weapons Development Board ) is responsible for the modifications made to the weapons systems of HMS Fearless.

Weapons used by the Time Lords included Bowships, Black Hole Carriers and N-Forms ( the last from Davies ' 1996 New Adventures novel Damaged Goods ), while the Daleks wielded " the full might of the Deathsmiths of Goth " ( from the comic strip story Black Legacy by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, in Doctor Who Weekly # 35 -# 38 ( 1980 ), and launched a massive fleet into the vortex ( possibly in The Time of the Daleks ).

** Les Armes du Meta-Baron ( Weapons of the Metabaron ) ( with Zoran Janjetov, graphic novel, 2008 )

Iain Banks's novel Use of Weapons interweaves two parallel stories, one told in standard chronology and one in reverse.

Weapons of Choice is the first novel of the Axis of Time alternate history trilogy, written by Australian author John Birmingham.

* Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, novel by Wendy Mass

The characters in the novel have long discussions on the history of French Satanism up to their time, and eventually one of them is invited to participate in a Black Mass, the type of which Huysmans claimed was practised in Paris in those years.

* Mass Effect: Retribution, a 2010 novel by Drew Karpyshyn

* Much of the novel Infinite Jest takes place in a city called Enfield, Mass., but geographic clues make clear that this is not a reference to the actual Enfield, and is instead a fictional stand-in for Brighton.

In: Cameron McCabe: The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor ( Gregg Press: Boston, Mass., 1981 ) ( includes the tapescript of a long interview with Borneman conducted in 1979 by Reinhold Aman, the editor of the scholarly U. S. periodical Maledicta ; reprinted in the 1986 Penguin edition of the novel )

* Mass ( novel ), a novel by Filipino author F. Sionil José

Dufresne published a fourth novel, Requiem, Mass.

* David S. Brody, Cabal of the Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower: a novel 2009, Martin and Lawrence Press, Groton, Mass: ISBN 0-9773898-7-1

As a dogmatic justification of this act, he advanced the novel tenet that the unleavened oblation of the " Franks " was not a valid Mass ; and one of his chaplains, Constantine by name, trod the consecrated Host under his feet.

He also appeared in the theatre, appearing in Cards on the Table, adapted from the novel by Agatha Christie at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1981, and in Mass Appeal by Bill C. Davis at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1982.

For a definitive investigation of the broader sociocultural context of the twelfth-century Byzantine novel and its complex aesthetics, see Panagiotis Roilos, " Amphoteroglossia ": A Poetics of the twelfth-century Medieval Greek Novel, Cambridge, Mass., 2005

The track ' Middle Mass ' was in part a play on George Eliot's 1871 novel Middlemarch.

* Midnight Mass, a 2004 novel by F. Paul Wilson

* Combat Boy by James Vance Elliott, a novel featuring both the Boston crime world of the 70's and the Mass.

A well known example is the 2005 title School Days, an animated visual novel that Kotaku describes as going well beyond the usual " black and white choice systems " ( referring to video games such as Mass Effect, Fallout 3 and BioShock ) where you " pick a side and stick with it " while leaving " the expansive middle area between unexplored.