This is the one novel technique that D. W. Griffith and his cameraman Billy Bitzer may really have invented.

" Also in 2000, she played Alejandra Villarreal, who is Matt Damon's love interest in Billy Bob Thornton's film adaptation of the western bestselling novel, All the Pretty Horses.

* Billy Budd ( 1951 ) ( with Eric Crozier ; based on Melville's novel, for the opera by Benjamin Britten )

Billy Barry, the fictional hero in Horace Porter's Young Aeroplane Scouts novel series of 1916 – 19, is also from Bangor, as is Edward Wozny, the protagonist in Lew Grossman's 2004 novel Codex, and Sir Kevin Dean de Courtney MacNair in Hayford Peirce's time-travel novel Napoleon Disentimed.

* Billy Jolie, author of the novel, The Lust Garden

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death ( 1969 ) is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a soldier called Billy Pilgrim.

The story repeatedly refers to real and fictional novels and fiction ; Billy reads The Valley of the Dolls ( 1966 ), and skims a Tralfamadorian novel, and participates in a radio talk show, part of a literary-expert panel discussing " The Death of the Novel.

* November 18-Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel Charming Billy.

In another fine work, the short novel Billy Budd, Melville dramatizes the conflicting claims of duty and compassion on board a ship in time of war.

* Robert Rankin's 2007 novel, The Da-da-de-da-da Code, features a group of villains known as the Air Loom Gang, as well as a doctor named Doctor Archy, a character known as " The Middleman " and a beer called " King Billy ".

Levinson has been a producer or executive producer for such major productions as The Perfect Storm directed by Wolfgang Petersen ( 2000 ); Analyze That ( 2002 ), starring De Niro as a neurotic mob boss and Billy Crystal as his therapist, and Possession ( 2002 ), based on the best-selling novel by A. S. Byatt.

* In 2000, McCarthy's novel All the Pretty Horses was made into a film directed by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz.

Mendes, who described the graphic novel as " much more pulpy ", sought to reduce the graphic novel's background to its essence, seeking the " nonverbal simplicity " of films like Once Upon a Time in America ( 1984 ), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ), and films by Akira Kurosawa that lacked dialogue.

* Billy ( novel ), a 1990 novel by Whitley Strieber

The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left the city life behind and searched Central and Northern California for a suitable farmland to own.

* In early drafts of Herman Melville's novel Billy Budd, HMS Bellipotent was to have been named Indomitable.

Two years later, she co-starred as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously, Peter Weir's film adaptation of the novel of the same name.

The painter and writer Billy Childish has painted a picture " The Drinker " influenced by Fallada's novel of the same title.

Puffing Billy incorporated a number of novel features, patented by Hedley, which were to prove important to the development of locomotives.

Greene is something of a poet and, according to the Cassell novel, Billy Bunter's Treasure Hunt knows something about numismatics.

Toddy is most in his element when there is a Form trial, such as in the novel Billy Bunter the Bold, where the Form put Bunter on trial for over-indulging his tuck raiding.

The novel begins on a beautiful summer day with Lord Henry Wotton, a strongly-opinionated man, observing the sensitive artist Basil Hallward painting the portrait of a handsome young man named Dorian Gray, who is Basil's ultimate muse.

Variety wrote: " Based on the novel by Arthur Hailey, over-produced by Ross Hunter with a cast of stars as long as a jet runway, and adapted and directed by George Seaton in a glossy, slick style, Airport is a handsome, often dramatically involving $ 10 million epitaph to a bygone brand of filmmaking " but added that the film " does not create suspense because the audience knows how it's going to end.

A 23-year-old man and former student, now destitute, Raskolnikov is described in the novel as " exceptionally handsome, above the average in height, slim, well built, with beautiful dark eyes and dark brown hair.

( Fair-haired Reggie Havershot admits earlier on in the novel that he is not particularly handsome.

In contrast, the Russian-born French novelist Zoé Oldenbourg gives him a more positive but fleeting cameo-role — proud, strong, and as handsome as Choniates described him — in her 1946 novel Argile et Cendres ( Clay and Ashes, published in English as The World Is Not Enough in 1948 ).

His image as a handsome and mighty warrior wearing a pheasant-tailed headdress and wielding a ji known as the " Sky Piercer " () on top of his steed Red Hare was later popularized by Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

In the novel, he symbolically shows Esmeralda the difference between himself and the shallow, superficial, self-centered, yet handsome Captain Phoebus with whom the girl is infatuated.

Nobel Prize winner George Bernard Shaw referred to an ottoman in this passage from his novel Pygmalion ; " In the middle of the room there is a big ottoman ; and this, with the carpet, the Morris wall-papers, and the Morris chintz window curtains and brocade covers of the ottoman and its cushions, supply all the ornament, and are much too handsome to be hidden by odds and ends of useless things.

Based on the 1929 Vicki Baum novel and play, Menschen im Hotel ( People in a Hotel ), and the subsequent 1932 MGM feature film, the musical focuses on events taking place over the course of a weekend in an elegant hotel in 1928 Berlin and the intersecting stories of the eccentric guests of the hotel, including a fading prima ballerina ; a fatally ill Jewish bookkeeper, who wants to spend his final days living in luxury ; a young, handsome, but destitute Baron ; a cynical doctor ; and a typist dreaming of Hollywood success.

The novel begins with an unnamed narrator's arrival in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, from back East and his encounter with an impressively tall and handsome stranger who proves adept at roping horses, teasing a friend who is off to be married, and facing down a fellow gambler, Trampas, with a pistol and a gently threatening, " When you call me that, smile!

This is Scott's gothic novel, redolent with family secrets, stories of hidden treasure and hopeless love, with a mysterious, handsome, young man, benighted aristocracy and a night-time funeral procession to a ruined abbey, no less.

The inherent challenges of love are made apparent in the narrator's imagery: " Love is handsome, love is kind " during the novel honeymoon phase of any relationship.

" In Trillion Year Spree, Aldiss and Wingrove report the novel " plays high, wide, and handsome with space and time, buzzes around the solar system like a demented hornet, is witty, profound, and trivial all in one breath.

The young, idealistic, and terribly handsome writer of the novel that the film is based on, Rick Foster, quickly gets roped into convoluting the plot of this already-bad adaptation of his heartfelt book largely because of a chance meeting between him and the film's star, Guy.

The adventure novel exhibits these " protagonist on adventurous journey " characteristics as do many popular feature films, such as Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

When she made it, the results, starring Margaret Rutherford, were popular and successful light comedies, but were disappointing to Christie herself ; nevertheless, Agatha Christie dedicated the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side to Rutherford.

In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.

After Gibson's popular debut novel, Count Zero ( 1986 ) and Mona Lisa Overdrive ( 1988 ) followed.

* Lewis Carroll featured a surrealistic version of the game in the popular children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ; a hedgehog was used as the ball, a flamingo the mallet, and playing cards as the hoops.

The epistolary novel as a genre became popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson, with his immensely successful novels Pamela ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1749 ).

Gaudy Night ( 1935 ) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth in her popular series about aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third featuring crime writer Harriet Vane.

The influence of the gothic novel on the goth subculture can be seen in numerous examples of the subculture's poetry and music, though this influence sometimes came second hand, through the popular imagery of horror films and television.

Compared with language in a modern newspaper, magazine or popular novel, Shakespeare's language can strike contemporary readers as complex, elaborate and at times difficult to understand.

Typee, Melville's first novel, describes a brief love affair with a beautiful native girl, Fayaway, who generally " wore the garb of Eden " and came to epitomize the guileless noble savage in the popular imagination.

A popular image of Guanyin as both Guanyin of the South Sea and Guanyin With a Fish Basket can be seen in late 16th century Chinese encyclopedias and in prints that accompany the novel Golden Lotus.

The novel was very well received and is still a popular children's novel today.

Since the rights holders in Japan by this time had created a unified ( although still evolving ) list of romanized character and mecha names, Schodt was able to use it, and Amuro's rival in the novel thus became " Char " and not " Sha "; the popular Zeon Mobile Suit, similarly, became " Zaku ," and not " Zak ".

Meanwhile, concentrating on hot films, Paramount was met with critical success with the release of The Godfather, based on the popular novel.

The magazine began to take off when, in 1905, the publishers acquired the rights to serialize Ayesha, by H. Rider Haggard, a sequel to his popular novel She.

The novel has an ambiguous ending, with Bulero heading back toward Earth, and apparent proliferation of Eldritch's cyborg bodily ' stigmata ' - which may mean that Bulero is still trapped in Eldritch's hallucinatory domain, or that Chew-Z is becoming increasingly popular amongst Terrans and Martian colonists.

Many of his popular novel series have been optioned for movies.

An almost literal use of the phrase appears in popular fiction within H. G. Wells ' 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come, where the protagonist finds a manuscript written in shorthand that provides a key to understanding additional scattered material that is sketched out in both longhand and on typewriter.

Sometimes, authors who do not have the time or money to write a novella or novel decide to write short stories instead and work out a deal with a popular website or magazine ; such as Playboy, to publish them for profit.

* Naked Came the Stranger: a 1969 novel by a group of American journalists attempting to satisfy, and thus expose, what they perceived as degraded standards in popular American literature ; it succeeded, selling about 90, 000 copies before the hoax was revealed.

Most popular accounts are based on E. A. Ritter's novel Shaka Zulu ( 1955 ), a potboiling romance which was re-edited into something more closely resembling a history.

The accounts are known through often inconsistent 19th-century secret society histories and popular literature, and also appear to draw on both Fujianese folklore and popular narratives such as the classical novel Water Margin.