* Domitia and Domitian ( 2000 ), a historical novel by David Corson based on the works of Brian Jones and Pat Southern, revolving around the titular characters.

* John Cleland's early erotic novel Fanny Hill ( 1748 ) is written as a series of letters from the titular character to an unnamed recipient.

* Burley Cross Postbox Theft ( 2010 ) by Nicola Barker is a polylogic epistolary novel consisting of a bundle of 26 undelivered letters stolen from a mailbox in the titular village of Burley Cross.

In Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha set in Ireland in the 1960s, the titular protagonist watches the show and mentions Napoleon Solo at several points in the novel.

* In Peter Høeg's novel Smilla's Sense of Snow, the titular heroine reflects that it is admirable for the hotel's manager and guests to go to all that trouble so that the latecomer can have his own room and some privacy.

* ( 1922 ) Lisa, the main character in the novel Letter from an Unknown Woman by Stefan Zweig, contracts typhus, along with her son, and she writes her lost love the titular letter from a hospital ward before dying.

In the novel The Truce at Bakura, set one day after the battle of Endor, Luke Skywalker and his friend Wedge Antilles recover a message droid from the titular planet, which was being invaded by the Ssi-Ruuk.

In the 1945 John Steinbeck novel Sweet Thursday, the titular day is preceded by " Lousy Wednesday ".

Hobbits first appeared in the novel The Hobbit, in which the main protagonist, Bilbo Baggins, is the titular hobbit.

Screen legend Tony Curtis ( 1925 – 2010 ), who was born Bernard Schwartz, named himself for the titular character ; the novel from which this film was adapted was the actor's favorite.

Bialystock at one point calls Leo " Prince Myshkin ", the titular protagonist in Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot.

The Prester and his kingdom also figure prominently in Umberto Eco's 2000 novel Baudolino, in which the titular protagonist enlists his friends to write the Letter of Prester John for his adoptive father Frederick Barbarossa, but it is stolen before they can send it out.

* Chthon — The titular prison planet in Piers Anthony's novel Chthon.

He later appeared in a prequel as the titular Nevada Smith, a character from Harold Robbins ' The Carpetbaggers who had been portrayed by Alan Ladd two years earlier in a movie version of that novel.

* In appearances at Star Trek conventions, Nichols had indicated that the character is " Nyota penda Uhura "; perhaps coincidentally, in Nichols ' 1996 novel Saturn's Child she named the mother of the titular character " Nyota ".

The titular Jewish woman of the novel is based on Alfonso's historical paramour, Rahel la Fermosa.

The Hundred and One Dalmatians, or the Great Dog Robbery is a 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith about the robbery of the titular family of 101 Dalmatian dogs.

His best known work is without doubt the short novel The Black Spider ( Die schwarze Spinne ), a semi-allegorical tale of the plague in form of the titular monster that devastates a Swiss valley community ; first as a result of a pact with the devil born out of need and a second time due to the moral decay that releases the monster from its prison again.

Mason is one of the titular characters of Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon.

Jeremiah Dixon is one of the two titular characters of Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon.

* In Harry Harrison's novel Bill, the Galactic Hero, the titular character is stationed on a starship named Fanny Hill.

* Peregrine Pickle, the titular protagonist of a novel by Tobias Smollett

In 1990, the novel was adapted into a television movie featuring John Ritter as Ben Hanscom, Harry Anderson as Richie Tozier, Tim Reid as Mike Hanlon, Annette O ' Toole as Beverly Marsh, Richard Thomas as Bill Denbrough, Olivia Hussey as Audra Denbrough, Dennis Christopher as Eddie Kaspbrak, and Tim Curry in the lead role as the titular It.

* In Mordecai Richler's novel Barney's Version the titular character tells us, in relation to the publishing of Terry McIver's first novel, " literature would have been better served had he been interrupted mid-flight by a gentleman from Porlock.

Later on, Fascist Italy could also be considered as a " constitutional monarchy " of a kind, in the sense that there was a king as the titular head of state while actual power was held by Benito Mussolini under a constitution.

In both cases, the titular head of state-monarch or president-serves the traditional role of embodying and representing the nation, while the actual governing is carried out by a cabinet composed predominantly of elected Members of Parliament.

Former Pope Gregory XII was then created titular Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Ruffina by the Council, with rank immediately below the Pope ( which made him the highest-ranking person in the Church, since, due to his abdication, the See of Peter was vacant ).

Duke Nukem 3D features the adventures of the titular macho Duke Nukem ( voiced by Jon St. John ), who fights against an alien invasion on Earth.

Habibullah did, however, entertain an Indo-German-Turkish mission in Kabul in 1915 that had as its titular head the Indian nationalist Mahendra Pratap and was led by Oskar Niedermayer and the German legate Werner Otto von Hentig.

When the property of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kammin was secularized during the Protestant Reformation in 1534, their secular reign including the Kolberg area became intermediately ruled by a Lutheran titular bishop, before it was turned into a Sekundogenitur of the House of Pomerania.

The characters were designed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, and Kunio Okawara was responsible for the mechanical designs, including the titular giant robot, the RX-78-2 Gundam.

At the beginning of the 7th century, there were probably twenty-five titular churches in Rome ; even granting that, perhaps, the compiler of the Liber Pontificalis referred this number to the time of Marcellus, there is still a clear historical tradition in support of his declaration that the ecclesiastical administration in Rome was reorganized by this pope after the great persecution.

He is unintentionally killed by Edmund, the titular " Blackadder " ( Rowan Atkinson ), when Edmund thinks he is trying to steal his horse.

" Marge's beehive hairstyle was inspired by the titular Bride in Bride of Frankenstein and the style that Margaret Groening wore during the 1960s, although her hair was never blue.

It stars Jean Reno as the titular mob hitman ; Gary Oldman as corrupt DEA agent Stansfield ; a young Natalie Portman, in her feature film debut, as Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl who is taken in by the hitman after her family is murdered ; and Danny Aiello as Tony, the mobster who gives the hitman his assignments.

The titular ebony horse can fly the distance of one year in a single day, and is used as a vehicle by the Prince of Persia, Qamar al-Aqmar, in his adventures across Persia, Arabia and Byzantium.

Use of the style His Royal Highness or Her Royal Highness ( HRH ) and the titular dignity of Prince or Princess are governed by letters patent issued by George V on 30 November 1917 and published in the London Gazette on 11 December 1917.

However, when a woman marries a prince who does not hold a peerage, she is known as HRH Princess husband's Christian name, followed by whatever territorial or titular designation.

In Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu, he is conned by the Sorcerer of Tund, Rokur Gepta, into hunting down the titular object in the Rafa system.

In The Truce at Bakura, he appears to Luke to warn him about the threat presented by the Ssi-ruuk ; in The Lost City of the Jedi, he guides Luke to the titular city on Yavin IV ; in Heir to the Empire, meanwhile, he bids farewell to Luke, explaining that he must abandon his spiritual form to " move on " to a new, higher plane of consciousness.

Although he never actually ruled France, he was the titular Emperor and he is still generally referred to by historians as Napoleon II.

Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, Prince Français, Count of Meudon, Count of Moncalieri ad personam, titular 3rd Prince of Montfort ( commonly known as Prince Napoléon and occasionally as Prince Jerome Napoléon ; 9 September 1822 – 17 March 1891 ) was the second son of Jérôme Bonaparte, king of Westphalia, by his wife Catherine, princess of Württemberg.

In " The Marriage Counselor " he plays the titular character who is murdered by not one but three patients with whom he is having affairs.