The Latin edition of the book was entitled Philosophus Autodidactus and it was an earlier novel that is also set on a deserted island.

Within the successive editions of Edmé Boursault's Letters of Respect, Gratitude and Love ( Lettres de respect, d ' obligation et d ' amour ) ( 1669 ), a group of letters written to a girl named Babet was expanded and became more and more distinct from the other letters, until it formed a small epistolary novel entitled Letters to Babet ( Lettres à Babet ).

The Latin translation of his philosophical novel, entitled Philosophus Autodidactus, published by Edward Pococke the Younger in 1671, had an influence on John Locke's formulation of tabula rasa in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

Several other fictional books were invented by the same author, including an entire bibliography for the fictional author Pierre Menard, as well as an imaginary novel, purportedly written by a Bombay lawyer named Mir Bahadur Ali, entitled " The Approach to Al-Mu ' tasim ," which was " reviewed " by Borges in his story of the same name.

The pub is the subject of a novel by Martha Grimes, entitled The Lamorna Wink.

* Based on an existing novel or short story not previously dramatized ( which became his unfinished Mary Poppins entitled Bad Tuesday, not connected to the musical film and stage play scored by the Sherman Brothers );

The Latin translation of his philosophical novel, entitled Philosophus Autodidactus, published by Edward Pococke the Younger in 1671, had an influence on John Locke's formulation of tabula rasa in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

In 1975, he published a novel entitled The Starcrossed, depicting a scientist taken on as a science adviser for a terrible science fiction series.

In 2009 Tracy Chevalier wrote a historical novel entitled, Remarkable Creatures, in which Anning and Elizabeth Philpot were the main characters, and another historical novel about Anning, Curiosity by Joan Thomas, was published in March 2010.

Although never acknowledged by Matheson, it is worth noting that Mary Shelley published a novel entitled The Last Man that told the story of a future world ravaged by a plague and the last solitary inhabitant.

A novel about nineteenth-century Canadian farmers by Louis Hemon, entitled Maria Chapdelaine, depicts pea soup as common farmhouse fare:

The novel was originally a screenplay written in 1956 for producer Henry Morgenthau III for what would have been a television show entitled Commander Jamaica.

D. H. Lawrence entitled a novel, Aaron's Rod, in 1922.

In the novel, the material needs of nearly all thetes are satisfied by freely-available food and clothing, albeit of low quality ; thetes without the political connections of a phyle are entitled to similarly low-quality " free justice.

In a 1904 novel by Charles Whistler entitled A Prince of Cornwall Glastonbury in the days of Ine of Wessex is portrayed.

George E. Simpson and Neal R. Burger published a 1978 novel entitled Thin Air.

Geraldine McCaughrean rewrote the play as a novel entitled Cyrano, which was longlisted for the Carnegie Award in 2007.

Caspary eventually adapted the play for a novel with the same title and a sequel entitled simply Laura, both of which eventually were purchased by 20th Century Fox for $ 30, 000.

Giscard wrote his second romantic novel, published on 1 October 2009 in France, entitled The Princess and The President.

* American writer Christopher Bram wrote a novel entitled In Memory of Angel Clare ( 1989 ).

The " last Buchan " ( as Graham Greene entitled his appreciative review ) was the 1941 novel Sick Heart River ( American title: Mountain Meadow ), in which a dying protagonist confronts the questions of the meaning of life in the Canadian wilderness.

This series includes, for example, Ethel Lina White's novel The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ), which Alfred Hitchcock — before he went to Hollywood — turned into a much-loved movie entitled The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), and Ira Levin's ( born 1929 ) science fiction thriller The Boys from Brazil ( 1976 ), which was filmed in 1978.

On September 15, 2010, Danielewski's next novel was announced on his message boards: " Later this month publishers will receive the first 5 volumes of Mark Z. Danielewski's 27 volume project entitled The Familiar.

James Fenimore Cooper wrote a popular novel entitled The Last of the Mohicans but the people continue to survive.

Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

The novel Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston opens with a depiction of the Apollo 17 moonwalks using quotes taken from the official mission transcript.

Additional speculation from Douglas Kellner of UCLA argued that Big Brother represents Joseph Stalin and that the novel portrayed life under totalitarianism.

The term was popularized by Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.

The term was popularized by Canadian author Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, concerning young adults during the late 1980s and their lifestyles.

The transgalactic nature of the gin and tonic is discussed in Douglas Adams ' novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

The novel was made into a 1979 movie directed by Hal Ashby, starring Peter Sellers, who was nominated for an Academy Award for the role and Melvyn Douglas, who won the award for Best Supporting Actor.

* The 2003 novel Fox at the Front by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson depicts Philby selling secrets to the Soviet Union during the alternate Battle of the Bulge where German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel turns on the Nazis and assists the Allies in capturing all of Berlin.

Microserfs, published by HarperCollins in 1995, is an epistolary novel by Douglas Coupland.

* Oop !, a software idea in Douglas Coupland's novel Microserfs

In Douglas Adams's novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, the well-known line from Coleridge's Kubla Khan, " Weave a circle round him thrice ", is interpreted as the salute of an alien culture: " He waved hand round in a circle, three times.

* War of the Worlds: New Millennium, a 2005 novel by Douglas Niles

* Outside the genre of science fiction, 1994's Disclosure, starring Michael Douglas ( based on the Michael Crichton's novel ) depicts a VR headset being used as a navigation device for a prototype computer file system.

Henty, a producer of the Boy's Own Paper fiction who wrote for that magazine, portrays the life of William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, The Black Douglas, and others, while dovetailing the events of his novel with historical fiction.

* In the novel Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, the Xingu River is the location of the doomed Whittlesey / Maxwell expedition responsible for discovering evidence of the lost Kothoga tribe and their savage god Mbwun.

The film is adapted from a novel written by Lloyd C. Douglas.

The novel is closely related to Douglas ' previous book, The Robe, which was also adapted as a movie.

From Hell was partly inspired by the title of Douglas Adams ' novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, in that it explores the notion that to solve a crime holistically, one would need to solve the entire society in which it occurred.

* Caratacus is a major character in Douglas Jackson's novel Claudius, pub.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by Douglas Adams, first published in 1987.

Apart from the radio broadcasts, Douglas Adams recorded both unabridged and abridged readings of the first novel for the audiobook market.

* Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic ( 1997 ), ISBN 0-330-35446-9 – a novel based on the computer game of the same name by Douglas Adams.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.