* Lady Amalthea, a character in the fantasy novel and animated movie The Last Unicorn.

In Dune: House Corrino ( published in 2001 and the third novel in the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson ), Piter De Vries discovers the Harkonnen heritage of Lady Jessica and her newborn son Paul, and attempts to kidnap and ransom the infant.

* Dartmoor prison plays a central role in The Lively Lady, American author Kenneth Roberts ' 1931 historical novel taking place during The War of 1812

Byron features, under the codename of ' Lord Ruthven ', in Lady Caroline's own Gothic novel: Glenarvon ( 1816 ).

D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was privately published in 1928, while another important landmark for the history of the modern novel came with the publication of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury in 1929.

* In F. Paul Wilson's 2009 Repairman Jack novel Ground Zero, the recurring character of The Lady is revealed to be a manifestation of the Noosphere whose function is that of a " beacon " which informs a higher intelligence (" the Ally ") that sentient life exists in the area where she appears.

The plot of Corrupting Dr. Nice, a science fiction novel by John Kessel involving time travel, is modeled on films such as The Lady Eve and Bringing up Baby.

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym " A Lady ".

Of The Saint's companions, only Norman Kent was killed during an adventure ( he sacrifices himself to save Templar in the novel The Last Hero ); the other males are presumed to have settled down and married ( two to former female criminals: Dicky Tremayne to " Straight Audrey " Perowne and Peter Quentin to Kathleen " The Mug " Allfield ; Archie Sheridan is mentioned to have married in " The Lawless Lady " in Enter the Saint, presumably to Lilla McAndrew after the events of the story " The Wonderful War " in Featuring the Saint ).

Barer writes that several early Saint stories were rewritten from non-Saint stories, including the novel She Was a Lady, which appeared in magazine form featuring a different lead character.

* Victoria, Lady Wotton – Lord Henry's wife, who only appears once in the novel.

* 1021 – Lady Murasaki Shikibu writes her Japanese novel, The Tale of Genji.

* November 2 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the case of D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.

* The Lady of the Camellias was a novel about a courtesan by French author Alexandre Dumas, fils that was turned into the opera La Traviata by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.

An early inkling of changing attitudes came in 1960, when the government of the day tried unsuccessfully to prosecute Penguin Books for obscenity, for publishing the D. H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, which had been banned since the 1920s for what was considered racy content.

In the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, Manon Lescaut is an all-important model and point of comparison for Marguerite's life, loves, and death.

The film Lady of the Tropics ( 1939 ), directed by Jack Conway, with Hedy Lamarr and Robert Taylor is said to be inspired by the novel.

Jane Austen used the pseudonym " A Lady " as the author of her first novel Sense and Sensibility.

She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret.

Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862.

Constance Kent can be seen in many of the female characters in the novel: the murderess Lady Audley, the tomboyish Alica Audley, the restrained Phobe Marks, the lonely Clara Talboys.

* 1930 Cambridge Festival Theatre a " melodramatized version " of the novel including a " birthday fete and Rustic Ballet, The part of Lady Audley was played by ( Dame ) Flora Robson and the performance was produced by Tyrone Guthrie.

* The museum is mentioned in Book 1, chapter 24 of Henry James's novel " Portrait of a Lady.

Lady of Burlesque ( known in the UK as Striptease Lady ) ( 1943 ) based on the novel The G-String Murders ( 1941 ), by famous striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, stars Barbara Stanwyck as a stripper who gets involved in the investigation of murders at a burlesque house.

In the novel I, Claudius by English writer Robert Graves, Caligula is presented as being a murderous sociopath from his childhood, who became clinically insane early in his reign.

In Muriel Spark's 1976 novel The Takeover the eccentric Hubert Mallindaine believes himself to be a direct descendant of Caligula.

The work can be seen in relation to other absurdist works by Camus: the novel The Stranger ( 1942 ), the plays The Misunderstanding ( 1942 ) and Caligula, and especially the essay The Rebel ( 1951 ).

He played the mad Roman emperor Caligula in an uncompleted 1937 film version of Robert Graves's novel I, Claudius ( with Charles Laughton ); a kindly veterinarian who accidentally causes the death of a murderess ( played by Bette Davis ) in the 1952 suspense drama Another Man's Poison ; and the fool Wamba in the 1952 Ivanhoe ( with Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor ).

This novel points out that the underlying pun is similar to the name of Caligula.

The novel features a website named Caligula, which is involved indirectly in the murder of a young woman.

* In Robert Graves ' novel I, Claudius the narrator says that he believes that Drusilla was killed by Caligula, although he admits that he does not have firm evidence of this.

Burroughs wrote one other historical novel, I am a Barbarian, set in the Rome of Caligula.

* In the anime adaptation of the 2009 Japanese visual novel, Steins ; Gate, the character Yūgo Tennōji, aka ' Mr. Braun ', uses the pseudonym ' FB ', after Karl Ferdinand Braun.

* The Kincaids, a 1999 novel by Matt Braun presents a detailed fictionalized account of Guthrie's founding, rapid growth, and fight to become the state capitol as seen through the eyes of the books protagonist.

* The novel " Tampico's Gold " by Elizabeth Braun describes Tampico in poetic detail.

The Cat Who ... is a novel series of murder mystery novels by Lilian Jackson Braun.

* The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun, 2003 ( ISBN 1-893-22484-8 ), a parody novel by Robert Kaplow

The historical fiction novel Lords of the Land by Matt Braun is based on the King Ranch and its founder, although names and some circumstance have been altered.

* The Cherokee Outlet and the actions of the cattlemen play a prominent role in a portion of the Matt Braun western novel The Kincades.

* The Cat Who Went Underground, 1989 detective fiction novel by Lillian Jackson Braun

The historic roots of Algerian literature goes back to the Numidian era, when Apuleius wrote The Golden Ass, the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety.

John Sladek used the concept to humorous ends in his first novel The Reproductive System ( 1968, also titled Mechasm in some markets ), where a U. S. military research project goes out of control.

In the novel, his last contact with Earth is the radio message " The thing's hollow — it goes on forever — and — oh my God — it's full of stars!

* December 27 – Kern and Hammerstein's musical play, Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel, opens on Broadway and then goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theater.

* The fiction book Fire Bringer is about a young fawn who is born and goes on a quest to save the deer kind who are called the Herla in the novel.

( In the novel, after Bess leaves with " Sportin ' Life " and goes to New York, Porgy merely returns from jail, disillusioned, to being a beggar.

This major figure in The Fountainhead epitomized the " second-hander " who – in stark opposition to the uncompromising and innovative hero of the novel, Howard Roark, and exemplified in real life by Frank Lloyd Wright, whom Rand idolized – adapts the classicist and historicist Old World architectural styles to the new American medium of the skyscraper, and then goes on to adopt modernism as soon as this becomes safely fashionable.

But particularly with reference to the Art Deco mode – a style which goes unmentioned in Rand's novel – Hood in fact showed his creative versatility in designing two Deco skyscrapers so radically distinct from one another as the RCA Building and the McGraw-Hill Building.

" He goes on to say that " it ’ s hard to imagine anyone else writing a novel that packs so many ideas ( both big and small ) into such a perfectly contained narrative.

Furthermore, much of the appeal of Defoe's novel is the detailed and captivating account of Crusoe's thoughts, occupations and activities which goes far beyond that of Rogers ' basic descriptions of Selkirk, which account for only a few pages.

Wouk's novel goes into much greater detail about Ensign Keith's experiences in midshipman school and in his early relationship with his girlfriend May Wynn.

Rather, the novel describes in greater detail the feelings of the protagonist and what goes on in her immediate surroundings.

Sometimes ( for example at the end of Blake's 7 ) that goes so far that people write fan fiction ( or even publish a novel ) deciding what happens next.

Palahniuk has stated that he survives at the end of the novel by recording the last few minutes before the plane goes down and placing the recording beside the black box, all the while parachuting to safety, thus faking his own death.

In the novel, Once A Runner, written by John L. Parker, Jr., the main character, Quenton Cassidy, goes out to Newberry to live in isolation and train for distance running.

The German fantasy novel by Michael Ende The Neverending Story ( German: Die unendliche Geschichte 1979 and Ralph Manheim's English translation 1983 ) begins in Fantastica, when a will-o '- the-wisp goes to ask the Childlike Empress for help against the Nothing, which is spreading over the land.

Saccard goes to Belgium, and the novel ends with Caroline preparing to follow her brother to Rome.

Set in Mississippi sixty-seven years after the American Civil War ended race-based slavery and twelve years after the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution entitled American women to vote, this novel by William Faulkner shows how racism and misogyny can persist ; but its exploration of human prejudices goes well beyond those two.

There is also a tongue-in-cheek reference to zebra crossings in the science-fiction comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by English author Douglas Adams, in reference to Man using the improbable creature called the Babel fish as proof of the non-existence of God, the novel says, " Man then goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed at the next zebra crossing.

By the end of this fifth novel, Earth and all of its possible permutations and alternate versions are destroyed once and for all, and everybody dies, at least as far as the novel Mostly Harmless goes.

In his novel Warlords of Utopia, part of the loosely linked Faction Paradox series, Lance Parkin explored a multiverse in which every universe in which Rome never fell goes to war with every universe in which the Nazis won WWII.

Even a purely historical work selectively reveals backstory to the audience, a backstory which may receive alternative creative emphasis in each rendition of a novel, play, or film, while each shares key elements — however differently they may be depicted and revealed — which are factors of timing, style and story telling art of a given media while the whole of a backstory goes to facts.

Broun stated that “ the substance of any two Zane Grey books could be written upon the back of a postage stamp .” T. K. Whipple praised a typical Grey novel as a modern version of the ancient Beowulf saga, “ a battle of passions with one another and with the will, a struggle of love and hate, or remorse and revenge, of blood, lust, honor, friendship, anger, grief — all of a grand scale and all incalculable and mysterious .” But he goes on to criticize Grey ’ s writing, “ His style, for example, has the stiffness which comes from an imperfect mastery of the medium.

* The 1958 novel " Runway Zero-Eight " by Arthur Hailey and John Castle includes a British character, a passenger on the flight, who goes by the nickname "' Otpot ", which he explains is a reference to " Lancashire ' Otpot ".