In a few of her novels, including Death Comes as the End and And Then There Were None, there are multiple victims.

: Christie ’ s Murder in Mesopotamia is the most archaeologically influenced of all her novels as it is set in the Middle East at an archaeological dig site and associated expedition house.

She has authored over fifty-six novels and she has a great dislike of people taking and modifying her story characters.

She presented the character as a bold and eccentric old lady, different from the prim and birdlike character Christie created in her novels.

She wrote a volume of poetry with her sisters ( Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, 1846 ) and two novels.

Mainly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Brontë after Anne's death, she is less known than her sisters Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre, and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights.

However her novels, like those of her sisters, have become classics of English literature.

In view of the success of her novels, particularly Jane Eyre, Charlotte was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes.

However, her main work is the genre of young readers ' novels in which children have their own adventures with minimal adult help.

Her classical education left its mark ; Christopher Stray has observed that " George Eliot's novels draw heavily on Greek literature ( only one of her books can be printed correctly without the use of a Greek typeface ), and her themes are often influenced by Greek tragedy ".

In other essays she praised the realism of novels written in Europe at the time, and an emphasis placed on realistic storytelling would become clear throughout her subsequent fiction.

Several buildings in her birthplace of Nuneaton are named after her or titles of her novels.

Sheldon's two novels, produced toward the end of her career, were not as critically well-received as her best-known stories but continued to explore similar themes.

* " Her stories and novels are humanistic, while her deep concern for male-female ( even human-alien ) harmony ran counter to the developing segregate-the-sexes drive amongst feminist writers ; What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some lyric poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst for final polish.

Her portrait of messianic ( self -) sacrifices of these figures make for entertaining speculation, but they have not been taken seriously as history even by her staunchest supporters, though they have been used in novels ( e. g. Katherine Kurtz's Lammas Night, Philip Lindsay's The Devil and King John ).

Her mother read Mary Johnston's novels to her before she could read.

Rand originally expressed her philosophical ideas in her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and other works.

Frank Heynick has argued from a study of the journal notes of Ayn Rand made in the late 1930s and of incidents in her 1943 novel The Fountainhead, that Raymond Hood's career and works provided fodder for her fictional architect Peter Keating.

From Rand's working notes for her novel The Fountainhead, it is clear that the character Lois Cook in that book was intended as a caricature of Stein.

His memorable film roles thereafter included portraying the husband of Joan Crawford during her Oscar-nominated role from 1947's Possessed and the doomed publishing tycoon Gail Wynand in 1949's The Fountainhead, opposite Gary Cooper.

Rand began The Fountainhead ( originally titled Second-Hand Lives ) following the completion in 1934 of her first novel, We the Living.

Rand dedicated The Fountainhead to her husband, Frank O ' Connor, and to architecture.

Assessing the novel's legacy, philosopher Douglas Den Uyl described The Fountainhead as relatively neglected compared to her later novel, Atlas Shrugged, and said, " our problem is to find those topics that arise clearly with The Fountainhead and yet do not force us to read it simply through the eyes of Atlas Shrugged.

After reading The Fountainhead and exchanging letters and phone calls with Ayn Rand, Branden and his then girlfriend Barbara Weidman visited Rand and her husband Frank O ’ Connor at their Los Angeles home in 1950, and the four became close friends, with Branden and Rand in particular sharing a vivid interest in philosophical exploration and development.

Even prior to her success with The Fountainhead, the novelist Ayn Rand was a friend of both Hazlitt and his wife, Frances, and it was Hazlitt who introduced Rand to Mises, bringing together the two figures who would become most associated with the defense of pure laissez-faire capitalism.

She wrote the story in the summer of 1937, while taking a break from research she was doing for her next novel, The Fountainhead.

The author and philosopher Ayn Rand acquired the property, with the modernism evocative of her novel ' The Fountainhead ,' and resided there.

" Rand had made her break with Nietzsche by the time she published The Fountainhead.

The selections include short stories, plays, and excerpts of material cut from her novels We the Living and The Fountainhead.

Of all the books in the Sword of Truth series, Faith of the Fallen most closely pays homage to Ayn Rand and has major plot parallels to her breakthrough novel The Fountainhead.

She, however, wanting to protect her virginity, fled to the Atlas mountains.

Ayn Rand wrote on morality in her works The Virtue of Selfishness and Atlas Shrugged.

" The essence of Objectivist ethics is summarized by the oath her Atlas Shrugged character John Galt adhered to:

In Plato's myth of Atlantis, Poseidon consorted with Cleito, daughter of the autochthons Evenor and Leucippe, and had by her ten sons: Ampheres, Atlas, Autochthon, Azaes, Diaprepes, Elasippus, Euaemon, Eumelus ( Gadeirus ), Mestor, Mneseus.

In July 2012, Lana made her public debut as a woman, in a video discussing the creative process behind Cloud Atlas.

Ayn Rand is mentioned by name a few times in Illuminatus !, and her novel is alluded to by Hagbard who says, " If Atlas can Shrug and Telemachus can Sneeze, why can't Satan Repent?

* Ayn Rand included in her book Atlas Shrugged a character who is a modern-day Scandinavian pirate, to whom she gave the first name " Ragnar ".

In her Atlas of Middle-earth, Karen Wynn Fonstad estimates a total length of 1, 388 miles ( 2, 233 km ).

However, Ms. Lana Lou Lane's family lines are described in the World Atlas of Dog Breeds as the founders of the breed, featured also in the book are the photos of White Pines Kennel Alapahas, Ms. Lane did not trademark the name " Alapaha Blue Blood Bulldog " for her family bloodline before her death unfortunately, because the breed was being registered elsewhere at the time she attempted and the name being used she was unable to secure her old time bloodlines and name of the breed.

In the fourth book, The Battle of the Labyrinth, she has been exiled and trapped on an island because she helped her father, Atlas ; she is freed by Percy in the fifth book, The Last Olympian.

The Atlas of Middle-earth was her first of five atlases.

They say Maira was a daughter of Atlas, and Homer makes mention of her in the passage where Odysseus tells to Alkinous his journey to Hades, and of those whose ghosts he beheld there.

* Ayn Rand references the theme in Atlas Shrugged, her epic of a fictional USA's decline into an impoverished kleptocracy.

Lana Lang was automatically dismissed from her post of CEO when she attempted to use Team Luthor ( a LexCorp security unit ) to aid Superman in a battle against the superpowered Atlas ; this was in violation of a contractual clause in all LexCorp employment charters forbidding aiding Superman in any way-Lang had not read the fine print.

The Bibliotheca includes her among the Titans The Roman mythographer Gaius Julius Hyginus makes her the daughter of the Titan Atlas.

The current version of Mary Marvel, originating in The Power of Shazam !, has the same powers from the same benefactors as her brother ( Solomon, Hercules *, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury ).

In the aftermath, Atlas and Dallas were split into separate bodies, with Dallas retaining the remainder of Atlas ' ionic power, allowing her to walk again with enhanced agility and strength.