* In Oscar Wilde's novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), a portrait serves as a magical mirror that reflects the true visage of the perpetually youthful protagonist, as well as the effect on his soul of each sinful act

The myth had a decided influence on English Victorian homoerotic culture, via André Gide's study of the myth, Traite du Narcisse (' The Treatise of the Narcissus ', 1891 ), and the only novel by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine.

The title is never revealed in the novel, but at Oscar Wilde's trial he admitted that he had ' had in mind ' Joris-Karl Huysmans's À Rebours (' Against Nature ').

In chapter 4 of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian leafs through a copy of Manon Lescaut while waiting for Lord Henry.

Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.

In Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wooton turns praise of folly into a philosophy which mocks " slow Silenus " for being sober.

Made in the Pre-Code era, it was written by Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda, from the operetta Ein Walzertraum by Oscar Straus ( libretto by Leopold Jacobson and Felix Dörmann ), which in turn was based on the novel Nur der Prinzgemahl ( Only the Prince Consort ) by Hans Müller-Einigen.

In 1984, again under the Andrew Macdonald pen name, William Pierce published another novel, Hunter, which tells the story of a man named Oscar Yeager, a veteran of the Vietnam War and F-4 Phantom pilot who assassinates mixed-raced couples.

" Furthermore, in a novel attributed to Oscar Wilde, Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal, Des Grieux makes a passing reference to Antinous as he describes how he felt during a musical performance.

Oscar Wilde imitated the novel in several passages of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Oscar Wilde's novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, mentions " What to imperial Neronian Rome the author of the Satyricon once had been.

* His book Father and Son partially inspired Oscar and Lucinda, a novel by Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award.

* In the 2007 novel Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, " Peaksville " and The Twilight Zone are mentioned in comparison with Trujillo's reign of the Dominican Republic between 1930 and 1961.

* Flower Drum Song, music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by David Henry Hwang ; based upon the libretto by Oscar Hammerstein, II and Joseph Fields and the novel The Flower Drum Song by C. Y. Lee ; New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2003.

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.

Dominican-American author Junot Díaz, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his 2007 novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which tells the story of an overweight Dominican boy growing up as a social outcast in Paterson, New Jersey.

She had been thinking about a story set during the time of Oscar Wilde for the next novel, but decided to abandon it and go back to the erotic writing she had explored in the 1960s.

Oscar Wilde refers to Caliban in the preface of his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The media mistakenly reported the yellow book which Oscar Wilde carried to his trial to be The Yellow Book itself, when it in fact was a French novel.

In Chapter 18 of the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), the character Lord Henry Wotton says to a young Dorian Gray: " The only horrible thing in the world is ennui, Dorian.

Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Australian author Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize, the 1989 Miles Franklin Award, and was shortlisted for The Best of the Booker.

** Pipe Dream – Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Richard Rodgers, based on the novel Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck.

** Flower Drum Song – Book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joseph Fields, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Richard Rodgers based on the novel The Flower Drum Song by C. Y. Lee.

Even still, the story was greeted with outrage by British reviewers, some of whom suggested that Wilde should be prosecuted on moral grounds, leading Wilde to defend the novel aggressively in letters to the British press.

Wilde is reputed to have stated that " in every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

Conan Doyle promptly submitted The Sign of the Four to Stoddart, but Wilde was more dilatory ; Conan Doyle's novel was published in the February 1890 edition of Lippincott's, but Stoddart did not receive Wilde's typescript for The Picture of Dorian Gray until 7 April 1890.

It consists of a collection of statements about the role of the artist, art itself, and the value of beauty, and serves as an indicator of the way in which Wilde intends the novel to be read, as well as traces of Wilde's exposure to Taoism and the writings of the Chinese Taoist philosopher Chuang Tsu.

Later, Wilde struck at Whistler again, basing the murdered artist in his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray after Whistler.

* Hereward by James Wilde ( 2011 ), a " brutal novel of revenge ", first in a projected trilogy, with the next two titles, The Devil's Army and End of Days to be published in the future.

* Hereward, a historical novel by James Wilde, pub.

Both paintings illustrate the 1849 gothic novel Sidonia the Sorceress by Lady Wilde, a translation of Sidonia Von Bork: Die Klosterhexe ( 1847 ) by Johann Wilhelm Meinhold.

During a short but glittering literary career, Wilde wrote poetry, short stories, criticism and a novel, but his plays probably represent his most enduring legacy.

* Wilde Reise durch die Nacht ( A Wild Ride Through the Night ), 2001 ( novel )

In her graphic novel Persepolis, Iranian cartoonist Marjane Satrapi has a comic strip titled Kim Wilde.

Couperus ' 1891 novel Noodlot (' Footsteps of Fate ') was much admired by Oscar Wilde, and many have noted stylistic similarities between Noodlot and Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

French fantastique writers of the 19th century were diversely influenced by the English Gothic novel writers, especially Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis and Charles Maturin, German author E. T. A. Hoffmann and composer Richard Wagner, American writer Edgar Allan Poe, British poets Lord Byron and Oscar Wilde.

Whale, wary of doing two horror films in a row and concerned that directing Dracula's Daughter could interfere with his plans for the remake of Show Boat, instead convinced Laemmle to buy the rights to a novel called The Hangover Murders.

In the mystery novel The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters ( 1974 ) the central plot revolves around the debate as to whether Richard III was guilty of these and other crimes.

Lady of Burlesque ( known in the UK as Striptease Lady ) ( 1943 ) based on the novel The G-String Murders ( 1941 ), by famous striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, stars Barbara Stanwyck as a stripper who gets involved in the investigation of murders at a burlesque house.

When the details of the trial were later documented by Mortimer in the novel Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders in 2002, he moved the events to the early 1950s.

Van Gulik's intent in writing his first Judge Dee novel was, as he wrote in remarks on The Chinese Bell Murders, " to show modern Chinese and Japanese writers that their own ancient crime-literature has plenty of source material for detective and mystery-stories ".

* The Japanese TV drama Kagi no Kakatta Heya ( The Locked Room Murders ) is based on the Yusuke Kishi novel of the same name.

Although Moonstone is often seen as the first detective novel, Edgar Allan Poe's short story mysteries, The Murders in the Rue Morgue ( 1841 ) and The Purloined Letter ( 1845 ) were published before The Moonstone.

The plot of The ABC Murders is mentioned by Detective Inspector John Appleby in Michael Innes ′ novel Appleby ′ s End ( 1945 ), and in the first story in volume 39 of the manga Detective Conan ( chapters 393-397 ), which was inspired by the novel.

The first adaptation of the novel was the 1965 film The Alphabet Murders with Tony Randall as Hercule Poirot.

In two of the books in which he appears — The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The ABC Murders — Hastings plays a prominent role in the resolution of the mystery, with a casual observation he makes at one point in the novel leading Poirot to realise the guilty party: By mentioning that Poirot had to straighten some spill holders and ornaments in Styles, he prompts Poirot to realise that someone had moved them, thus allowing Poirot to discover a crucial piece of evidence, and when he suggests that an incorrectly addressed letter revealing the latest crime in ABC Murders was addressed that way on purpose, Poirot realises that the letter had indeed been wrongly addressed deliberately so that it would not be received until after the murderer had committed his crime, revealing that the murderer had attached greater importance to that particular murder, and wanted to be certain that it was committed.

The G-String Murders is a 1941 detective novel written by famed American burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee.

The novel has also been published under the titles Lady of Burlesque and The Strip-Tease Murders.

The Campus Murders is a 1969 paperback novel by Gil Brewer ( 1922-1983 ) published under the name Ellery Queen.

Gabriel is following a series of homicides, dubbed " The Voodoo Murders " for their apparent voodoo overtones hoping to use the police investigation, led by Detective Mosely, as the basis of a new novel.

He wrote another novel in 1989, also unpublished, The Royal Murders.

The novel was Nicholas Sparks ' first published novel, and the third written after The Passing and The Royal Murders, which he did not publish.

In 2008, a mystery novel called The Marathon Murders was published by Nashville author Chester Campbell.

In addition to Florescu's speculative work, the Dippel / Frankenstein merging has appeared in several works of fiction: Robert Anton Wilson's fantasy novel The Earth Will Shake features Dippel as a monster-making, globe-hopping magician who calls himself Frankenstein ; the science fiction novel The Frankenstein Murders portrays Dippel as an assistant to Victor Frankenstein ; Topps ' three-part comic book miniseries The Frankenstein-Dracula War lists Dippel as one of Dr. Frankenstein's chief inspirations ; Warren Ellis's graphic novel Frankenstein's Womb hypothesizes that Shelley indeed visited Castle Frankenstein and heard of Dippel before writing her famous work ; Christopher Farnsworth's debut novel Blood Oath features a vampire trying to stop an immortal Dippel ( who had once worked for Adolf Hitler ) from creating a Frankenstein-like army ; G. M. S.