The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

Bestselling author Pat Conroy, in his preface to the novel, describes Mitchell's portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as having " the same romanticized role it had in The Birth of a Nation and appears to be a benign combination of the Elks Club and a men's equestrian society.

* The Thomas Pynchon novel V. contains a chapter centered around an attempted robbery of The Birth of Venus from the museum.

In the title of his novel The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann alludes to a passage from The Birth of Tragedy, and the influence of Nietzsche's work can be seen in the novel's character Mynheer Peepercorn, who embodies the " Dionysian principle.

Additionally, he was portrayed as a villain in The Clansman, the second novel in the trilogy upon which Birth of a Nation was based.

His Post-Crisis origin story is told in the graphic novel Batman: Birth of the Demon ( 1992 ) by Dennis O ' Neil and Norm Breyfogle.

The graphic novel Batman: Birth of the Demon ( 1992 ) explains how her father met her mother at Woodstock and that she was of mixed Chinese and Arab descent.

* The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica, Dial Press ( 1983 )( novel )

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

* Jeffrey Archer, 2001: Archer wrote about his stay in Belmarsh in the first volume of A Prison Diary and used the setting extensively in his novel A Prisoner of Birth.

The novel was immediately adapted by its author as a play entitled The Clansman ( 1905 ) and by D. W. Griffith as the groundbreaking 1915 silent movie The Birth of a Nation.

* The Birth of Venus ( novel ), a novel by Sarah Dunant

Anvers Island was the scene of the protagonist Grim Fiddle's " kingdom " and his later imprisonment in John Calvin Batchelor's novel The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica.

Directed by Harley Knoles from a screenplay by Harry Chandlee, it is based on the 1909 novel " Comrades " by Thomas Dixon, author of another novel that served as the basis for The Birth of a Nation.

The novel Venus in Furs is his only book commonly available in English.

As in Venus in Furs, he traveled in the third-class compartment, while she had a seat in first-class, arriving in Venice ( Florence, in the novel ), where they were not known, and would not arouse suspicion.

Indeed, the opera bears some striking resemblances with the novel, and, in short, tells the story of a medieval ( and historically real ) singer, whose art is so beautiful that he causes Venus, the goddess of love herself, to fall in love with him, and to offer him eternal life with her in the Venusberg.

* Venus ( novel ), a science fiction novel by Ben Bova

* In one episode of the science fiction novel Perelandra by C. S. Lewis, the protagonist ( a philologist from Cambridge transported to the planet Venus ) finds himself " shouting a line out of ' The Battle of Maldon '" as he fights the Un-Man, a demon-possessed scientist.

In the world of those stories, Kilgore Trout has written a novel called Venus on the Half-Shell.

In 1975 real-world author Philip José Farmer wrote a science-fiction novel called Venus on the Half-Shell, which he published under the name Kilgore Trout.

* The novel Appointment with Venus by Jerrard Tickell is set on the fictional island of Armorel, which is presumed to be based on Sark.

In Robert A. Heinlein's 1948 novel Space Cadet, aerobraking is used to save fuel while slowing the spacecraft Aes Triplex for an unplanned extended mission and landing on Venus, during a transit from the Asteroid Belt to Earth.

Faithfull's maternal great great uncle was Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the 19th century Austrian nobleman whose erotic novel, Venus in Furs, spawned the word " masochism ".

* Venus in Furs ( 1870 ) by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch – Autobiographical novel wherein the protagonist encourages his mistress to enslave and mistreat him.

Lewis's description of Perelandra's environment and rotation period is, of course, inconsistent with the actual conditions on Venus, but astronomical observation at the time of writing of the novel had not yet positively determined this to be the case.

* The beginning of the novel Venus on the Half-Shell is set in 3069.

* " Venus in Furs " is a reference to a Velvet Underground song of the same name, whose title and lyrics in turn reference a novel of that name by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

* Wanda, a popular name in BDSM circles ; name a character in Sacher-Masochs novel Venus in Fur

* Venus Envy ( novel ), by Rita Mae Brown

* Venus Envy ( novel ), by Shannon McKelden

Trout is also the titular author of the novel Venus on the Half-Shell, pseudonymously written by Philip José Farmer.

At least one actual published work is attributed to a Kilgore Trout: the novel Venus on the Half-Shell, written by Philip José Farmer but published under the name " Kilgore Trout.

* Venus on the Half-Shell ( novel first mentioned in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater )

In the novel Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon the title characters set sail for Sumatra in 1761 to view the Venus transit in the sixth-rate ship The Seahorse.

Transit of Venus is also a novel by Shirley Hazzard.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

A man in a novel who is defeated in his childhood and condemned by unconscious forces within him to tiredly repeat his earliest failure in love, only makes us a little weary of man ; ;

The tradition reached its apex, perhaps, in the works of Thomas Nelson Page toward the end of the century, and reappeared undiminished as late as 1934 in the best-selling novel So Red The Rose, by Stark Young.

In this novel arrangement the `` pill '' is much smaller and contains only a resonant circuit in which the capacitor is formed by a pressure-sensing transducer.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

Such associations suit well with the gothic or mystery-story aspects of Dickens' novel, but, on a deeper plane, they relate to the themes of sin, guilt, and pursuit that have recently been analyzed by other critics.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

Among the most noted recent works, there is the writer, the swallows of Kabul and the attack of Yasmina Khadra, the oath of barbarians of Boualem Sansal, memory of the flesh of Ahlam Mosteghanemi and the last novel by Assia Djebar nowhere in my father's House.

* Aliens ( 1902 novel ), by Mary Tappan Wright

* Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, 1969 novel by Vladimir Nabokov

The abbreviation " andy ", coined as a pejorative by writer Philip K. Dick in his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, has seen some further usage, such as within the TV series Total Recall 2070.

* Atlas Shrugged, a novel by Ayn Rand

* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

Northern ( and British ) readers recoiled in anger at the horrors of slavery through the novel and play Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin ( 1852 ) by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.

A special introduction written by Milne is included in some editions of Grahame's novel.

' This novel features sorcerers who become destroyed by forbidden knowledge and takes place in the Warhammer 40, 000 setting, itself utilizing Lovecraftian themes.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

* 1928 Alibi ( dramatised by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd )

* 2005 And Then There Were None ( dramatised by Kevin Elyot from the novel And Then There Were None )

La Peste ) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.

Oran and its environs were struck by disease multiple times before Camus published this novel.

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.