Director and script writer Sam Raimi drew from a variety of sources, including literature with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, and The Three Stooges.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) in part parodies Defoe's adventure novel.

In Jonathan Swift's poem: " The Progress of Beauty ", as goddess of the moon, Diana is used in comparison to the 17th / early 18th century everyday woman Swift satirically writes about.

* Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was originally attributed to " Lemuel Gulliver ", a ship's surgeon, and purported to be a factual account of four of his sea voyages.

" G. K. Chesterton compared it to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: " Gilbert pursued and persecuted the evils of modern England till they had literally not a leg to stand on, exactly as Swift did ...

* In book 4 of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, the name of the Houyhnhnms is an onomatopoeia for the whinny of a horse.

A product of the budding Age of Reason and the development of modern science itself, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was one of the first true science fantasy works, together with Voltaire's Micromégas ( 1752 ) and Johannes Kepler's Somnium ( 1620 – 1630 ).

* Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal and The Predictions for the Ensuing Year ( written as Isaac Bickerstaff ).

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is sometimes linked with utopian ( and dystopian ) literature, because it shares the general preoccupation with ideas of the good ( and bad ) society.

The later part, taking place on the planet of the " centaurs "— intelligent, horselike carnivores who dominate all other fauna on the planet including deformed human-like creatures — is evidently intended as Heinlein's commentary on and antithesis to the fourth part of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Houyhnhnms ( or ; Swift apparently intended all words of the Houyhnhnm language to echo the neighing of horses ) are a race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift's satirical Gulliver's Travels.

* Lilliput and Blefuscu, two island nations in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels

Geological features on Phobos are named after astronomers who studied Phobos and people and places from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, published seven years after Robinson Crusoe, may be read as a systematic rebuttal of Defoe's optimistic account of human capability.

* In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ( Part III ), the base of the fictitious flying island of Laputa is made of Adamant.

* Armagh Public Library on Abbey Street in Armagh City, especially rich in 17th and 18th century English books, including Dean Jonathan Swift's own copy of the first edition of his Gulliver's Travels with his manuscript corrections

A reprise of the theme of immortality without eternal youth appear in Book 3 of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels where the struldbrugs are in Tithonus's predicament.

In one scene of Jonathan Swift's The Battle of the Books, Momus, while rushing to defend the Moderns, gets some aid from the goddess Criticism.

A small creek winding through Campton, Swift Creek, is named after Jonathan Swift of the legend of Swift's silver mine.

Campton was a camp town with a small creek, swift creek ( named after Jonathan Swift of the legend of Swift's silver mine ) running through the town.

Although meaningless in Japanese, the name " Laputa " comes from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

* References to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island were removed, as was the reference to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Jonathan Swift's protagonist, Lemuel Gulliver, visited various strange places.

He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club ( where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, and possibly The Dunciad ), and for inventing the figure of John Bull.

The group's name is derived from the kingdom of coarse giants described in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels.

As a satirical utopia, Erewhon has sometimes been compared to Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), a classic novel by Jonathan Swift ; the image of Utopia in this latter case also bears strong parallels with the self-view of the British Empire at the time.

* Dozens of fictional footnotes referencing events, books of magical scholarship, and biographies in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, the debut novel by Susanna Clarke.

This period is dramatised in the novel Summer in February by Jonathan Smith.

A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) by Jonathan Swift.

The bridge and the phrase were mentioned in the novel A Touch of Love by Jonathan Coe.

Dr. No is the sixth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 31 March 1958.

After some years of submitting stories to women's magazines, she published her first novel, Some Tame Gazelle, with Jonathan Cape in 1950.

* There is also significant reference to an impossible object in Jonathan Lethem's most recent novel, Chronic City, where it plays a major part in the storyline.

* Tailors ' Rule of Thumb: This is the fictional rule described by Jonathan Swift in his satirical novel Gulliver's Travels:

Henry Fielding proved his mastery of the form in Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ), The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great ( 1743 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ), but, as Fielding himself wrote, these novels were written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, not in imitation of the picaresque novel ; Cervantes himself wrote a short picaresque novel, Rinconete y Cortadillo part of his Novelas Ejemplares ( Exemplary Novels ).

In 2005, the magazine Time included this work in their " 100 Best Novels from 1923 – 2005 ", and in 2010 American author Jonathan Franzen hailed the novel as a " masterpiece " in The New York Times.

* Jonathan Coe's novel The Rotters ' Club ( 2001 ) evokes 1970s Britain.

* The Babi Yar executions are described in detail in Jonathan Littell's novel Les Bienveillantes ( in English, The Kindly Ones ), whose main character, Dr. Aue, is one of the Nazi officers in charge.

The title is a reference to Gulliver's Travels, the famous novel by satirist Jonathan Swift about another journey of self-discovery.

** Octavia ( TV serial ), an ITV adaptation of Cooper's novel, written by Jonathan Harvey

From Russia, with Love is the fifth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 8 April 1957.

of French novel Les Bienveillantes by Jonathan Littell

As Secretary of State in the 2012 comic novel Nick & Jake, by Tad Richards and Jonathan Richards, Dulles demands the resignation of Undersecretary Nicholas Carraway ( from The Great Gatsby ), who has been accused of subversive activity by Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Thomas Hutter ( Jonathan Harker in Stoker's novel ) lives in the fictitious German city of Wisborg.

In Jonathan Coe's 1987 debut novel The Accidental Woman, the protagonist Maria shares a flat in Hornsey with two women for several years.

In the novel ( 1993 ), Jonathan and Martha Kent drive from the Great Bend, Kansas airport to Smallville, which would put Smallville somewhere in central Kansas.