Charles Shaw was a 19th century potter who's in-depth autobiography has given some of the clearest insights into the Victorian Potteries, and provided Arnold Bennett with inspiration for his Clayhanger novels.

Arnold Bennett referred to Longton as Longshaw in his novels centred on the Potteries towns.

The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.

And they have done this on a very large scale, with a veritable flood of novels and stories which are either dystopias or narratives of adventure with dystopian elements.

The novels and stories like Pohl's Drunkard's Walk ( 1960 ), with the focus on adventure and with the dystopian elements only a dim background -- in this case an uneasy, overpopulated world in which the mass of people do uninteresting routine jobs while a carefully selected, university-trained elite runs everything -- are in all likelihood as numerous as dystopias.

The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).

Mr. Sansom is English, bearded, formidably cultivated, the versatile author of numerous volumes of short stories, of novels and of pieces that are neither short stories nor travel articles but something midway between.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

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

These three novels are now available in the collection Murder In Three Stages.

Central to his behaviour in the later novels is the underlying assumption that particular crimes are only committed by particular types of people.

There is certainly a case for saying that Crooked House ( 1949 ) and Ordeal by Innocence ( 1957 ), which are not Poirot novels at all but so easily could have been, represent a logical endpoint of the general diminution of Poirot himself within the Poirot sequence.

In French, Italian, Spanish and German, alternate history novels are called uchronie.

In Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs novels human colonies on distant planets maintain contact with earth and each other via hyperspatial needlecast, a technology which moves information "... so close to instantaneously that scientists are still arguing about the terminology ...".

Before and during his political career, Disraeli was well known as a literary and social figure, although his novels are not generally regarded as a part of the Victorian literary canon.

William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy novels are famous early cyberpunk novels.

The Claudine books are a series of four early novels by the French author Colette published from 1900-1904.

All of the novels are written in first-person narrative with the first three in the series implementing Claudine as the narrator.

The Claudine novels are thought to be roughly autobiographical.

Charlotte Brontë (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855 ) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards.

His novels are currently published by Overlook Press, starting with Tears of Autumn, republished in 2005.

* Kage Baker has written a series of novels about The Company in which orphans from various eras ( who fit certain physical requirements ) are recruited by a time-traveling corporation, augmented and turned into immortal cyborgs, and trained to rescue valuable artifacts from history.

Nonetheless, the creators of comic strips — as well as comic books and graphic novels — are usually referred to as " cartoonists ".

In addition there are large numbers of cultural artifacts such as vernacular novels, how-to books, and children's books, which are in the process of being analyzed for clues as to how the average Chinese ( if there was such as thing ) lived.

Not surprisingly there are also comic-strips / graphic novels in the humorous fantasy genre, including Chuck Whelon's Pewfell series and the webcomics 8-Bit Theater and The Order of the Stick.

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

* The twelve-volume opus Life by Unspiek, Baron Bodissey is an oft-quoted imaginary work referred to in various novels by Jack Vance.

Klingon is sometimes referred to as Klingonese ( most notably in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", where it was actually pronounced by a Klingon character as " Klingonee " ) but, among the Klingon-speaking community, this is often understood to refer to another Klingon language called Klingonaase that was introduced in John M. Ford's 1988 Star Trek novel The Final Reflection, and appears in other Star Trek novels by Ford.

Italo Calvino referred to Tristram Shandy as the " undoubted progenitor of all avant-garde novels of our century.

' Le Cimetière marin ' is mentioned or indirectly implied or referred to in at least four of Iris Murdoch's novels, The Unicorn, The Time of the Angels, The Nice and the Good and The Sea, The Sea.

The novels that Heinlein wrote for a young audience are commonly referred to as " the Heinlein juveniles ", and they feature a mixture of adolescent and adult themes.

Most of the novels from this period are recognized by critics as forming an offshoot from the Future History series, and referred to by the term World as Myth.

King referred to the band several times in various novels and stories and The Ramones referenced King on the song " It's Not My Place ( In the 9 to 5 World )", which is on 1981's Pleasant Dreams.

Q believes that the birth of a new member of the Continuum could revitalize the Q. Janeway refuses, and after she and her crew bring about a ceasefire in the Continuum, Q eventually mates with the Female Q he had been involved with ( referred to in Star Trek novels as ' Lady Q '), producing a son.

In the episode " Q2 ", which is the last televised appearance of Q, Q appears on Voyager with his immature, rebellious son, who appears as a human teenager ( played by John de Lancie's real-life son Keegan de Lancie, and referred to in the novels as " Little Q " or " q ").

Notable females include Sela ( Tasha Yar's daughter ), Caithlin Dar ( Star Trek V: The Final Frontier ), Donatra ( Star Trek Nemesis ), Taris, and Toreth ( TNG: " Contagion " and " Face of the Enemy ", both played by Carolyn Seymour ) and the Romulan Commander in the TOS episode " The Enterprise Incident ," who is never referred to by name ( in Star Trek CCG and some noncanon novels, she is called " Commander Liviana Charvanek ").

* Ankh-Morpork, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, is referred to as " the twin cities of proud Ankh and pestilent Morpork "

Jane Austen, who referred to Fanny Burney as " the first of English novelists ," in Northanger Abbey refers to her inspiring novels:

Owain is a recurring character in the Brother Cadfael series of novels by Ellis Peters, often referred to, and appearing in the novels Dead Man's Ransom and The Summer of the Danes.

* In many novels by John le Carré, the British Secret Intelligence Service is referred to as " The Circus ", due to its ( fictional ) location in Cambridge Circus, London

Commonly, longer novellas are referred to as novels ; Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Heart of Darkness are sometimes called novels, as are many science fiction works such as The War of the Worlds and Armageddon 2419 A. D. Less often, longer works are referred to as novellas.

Taking into account occasional discrepancies in the dates of events ( real and fictional ) referred to in the stories, the following is an approximate chronological listing of Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel novels and short stories:

Amis's best-known novels are Money, London Fields, and The Information, commonly referred to as his " London Trilogy.

* Neil Gaiman's graphic novels The Sandman are partially set in " The Dreaming ", referred to in early volumes as " Dreamtime ", and also reference " Fiddler's Green "