In the world of literature, Wimbledon provides the principal setting for several comic novels by author Nigel Williams ( including the best-selling The Wimbledon Poisoner and They Came from SW19 ) as well as for Elisabeth Beresford's series of children's stories about the Wombles.

Their three children include the eldest son Octave, an intelligent but feckless ladies ' man ( featured as the principal character of two later novels in the cycle, Pot-Bouille ( 1882 ) and Au Bonheur des Dames ( 1883 ), but here little more than a footnote ), as well as the quiet and introverted younger son Serge and the mentally-handicapped daughter Desirée.

He is the principal character in some, not all, of the juvenile novels ghost-written by other writers under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, Jr.

Called Aunt Fanny by Julian, Dick and Anne, she is married to Uncle Quentin, and is, through most of Blyton's Famous Five novels, the principal maternal figure in the lives of the children.

In literature, Macclesfield is the second principal location of the fantasy novels The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner.

In 1968 Corea discovered Dianetics, Hubbard's principal work, and in the early 1970s developed an interest in Hubbard's science fiction novels.

He also wrote four short stories in 1940 about a stage magician named Don Diavolo, who appears as a principal character in one of the novels featuring The Great Merlini.

* Thaddeus Roth, principal antagonist of Catherine Jinks ' novels Evil Genius and Genius Squad.

The last scene of the game's canonical ending shows the principal characters, including Revan, being honored by the Republic at the site of the temple on Rakata Prime ; a picture of later events has emerged from subsequent games and novels.

The lake was known to James Fenimore Cooper as Glimmerglass and was a principal feature in several of his novels, including The Pioneers, The Deerslayer, and Last of the Mohicans in which one may find mention of such local landmarks as Council Rock and Sunken Island.

Some of these, such as The Talba, or the Moor of Portugal dealt with foreign life, but she based her most popular novels on the principal families ( the Trelawneys of Trelawne, the Pomeroys, and the Courtenays of Walreddon ) of the counties of Devon and Cornwall.

The principal characters in the novels are Tamzin Grey, Rissa Birnie, Meryon Fairbrass and Roger Lambert.

The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was, for many years, the Stratemeyer Syndicate's longest-running series of children's novels, penned under the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope.

The principal character in most of his novels was Colonel Charles Russell of the fictional Security Executive.

The principal characters are the Son of John Carter of Mars, Carthoris, and Thuvia of Ptarth, each of whom appeared in the previous two novels.

* Abner Brown is the principal villain in both novels, but plays a more prominent role in The Box of Delights.

Hoste's actions at Cattaro and Ragusa were later immortalised in fiction, where they are attributed to Captain Jack Aubrey, the principal character in Patrick O ' Brian's 20 novels of the Aubrey – Maturin series.

Drawing inspiration from novels of Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( Harold: the Last of the Saxon Kings-for the location of the opera to Britain in the Middle Ages and for the names of its characters, the principal being Aroldo, re-cast as a recently-returned Crusader ) and " hints " from the work of Walter Scott ( The Bethrothed-1825-and The Lady of the Lake ), the rewriting was delayed until after March 1857 by the preparation for Paris of Le trouvère, the French version of Il trovatore, and his work with Piave on Simon Boccanegra.

Bāna's principal works include a biography of Harsha, the Harṣacarita and one of the world's earliest novels, Kādambari ( Kādambari is the name of the heroine of the novel ).

Lazarus Long, principal protagonist in several of Robert Heinlein's novels, was born aposthic.

Like other novels of the period, such as Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest, or even his brother Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks, the principal target is the hypocrisy of bourgeois society and the risk of social collapse in a nation of loyal ' Untertan ' citizens.

His fame is mainly due to his novels, the principal themes of which are his recollections of a happy childhood and the fate of the deportees ; he has no interest however in revenge, but only wants to preserve his childhood memories.

* Claire Fraser, a medical practitioner and principal character in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series of novels, often uses maggots for debridement of necrotic tissue in her patients ' wounds.

In the summary of the principal events of the campaign compiled from the official records there are only ten days which show no fighting.

SBA works closely with the principal property disposal installations of the Federal Government in reviewing proposed sales programs and identifying those types of property that small business concerns are most likely to be interested in purchasing.

If the less developed countries are to be persuaded to adopt a long-term approach, the United States, as the principal supplier of external aid, must be prepared to give long-term commitments.

after completing the payments prescribed by paragraphs ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) of this subsection, to make payments, from time to time in ratable proportions, on account of the unpaid principal of all awards in the principal amount of more than $1,000, according to the proportions which the unpaid principal of such awards bear to the total amount in the fund available for distribution at the time such payments are made ; ;

Their locations in all parts of the United States, and their locations in the several kinds of educational and research institutions that are the principal homes of our intellectual and artistic strengths also are factors in the Trustees' minds.

There are three principal feed bunk types for dairy and beef cattle: ( 1 ) Fence-line bunks -- cattle eat from one side while feed is put in from the opposite side of the fence by self-unloading wagons ; ;

During summer vacation periods these records are stored in the office of the principal.

Of the various particle accelerators, the Van De Graff machines, resonant transformers, and linear accelerators are the principal ones available for commercial use.

In other countries where cereal grains are not among the principal crops of a region, starchy tubers or roots are processed for starch.

These, he said, are `` two of the principal underlying causes for family breakups leading to ADC ''.

While it must be said that these same Protestants have built some new churches during this period, and that religious population shifts have emptied churches, a principal reason for this phenomenon of redundancy is that fewer Protestants are going to church.

There are three principal families of abugidas, depending on whether vowels are indicated by modifying consonants by diacritics, distortion, or orientation.

They are derived from the characteristics of their spectroscopic lines: sharp, principal, diffuse, and fundamental, the rest being named in alphabetical order ( omitting j ).

The principal abalone farming regions are China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.

His principal theological works are a commentary in three volumes on the Books of the Sentences of Peter Lombard ( Magister Sententiarum ), and the Summa Theologiae in two volumes.

His principal sources are the Physics ( book 7 ), Metaphysics ( book 12 ), and the Pseudo-Aristotelian On the Universe.

However we are told by Longinus that Ammonius wrote nothing, and if Ammonius was the principal influence on Plotinus, then it is unlikely that Ammonius would have been a Christian.

Aldosterone's effects are on the distal convoluted tubule and collecting duct of the kidney where it causes increased reabsorption of sodium and increased excretion of both potassium ( by principal cells ) and hydrogen ions ( by intercalated cells of the collecting duct ).

Mycenae and Tiryns are the two principal sites on which evidence of a prehistoric civilization was remarked long ago by the classical Greeks.

There are difficulties in this story, of which the following are the principal elements: