Malinalli is the main character in a historical novel by Helen Heightsman Gordon, " Malinalli of the Fifth Sun: The Slave Girl Who Changed the Fate of Mexico and Spain.

* An Old Fashioned Martian Girl ( 2004 ), by Mary A. Turzillo, a novel serialized in Analog magazine.

Susanna Kaysen, well known for her novel, Girl, Interrupted, and its film adaptation, has also published The Camera My Mother Gave Me, a novel concerning her own experience with vulvodynia and its debilitating symptoms.

* Woozy ( Oz ), a fictional creature in the children's novel The Patchwork Girl of Oz

* Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, a children's science fiction novel

* Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century ( film ), the movie adaptation of the above novel

These include A Clockwork Orange, The Snake Pit, Quantum Leap ( TV series ), Stargate, Frances, Requiem for a Dream, the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey as well as the movie adaptation, Melrose Place, A Beautiful Mind, The Caretaker, The Best of Youth, House ; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Shine, The Beverly Hillbillies ( film ), the film version of Girl, Interrupted, Insanitarium, Changeling, Ciao!

The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum, is a children's novel, the seventh set in the Land of Oz.

Crane's first novel was the 1893 Bowery tale Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, which critics generally consider the first work of American literary Naturalism.

Crane also showed Johnson an early draft of his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.

It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth .” Little Women has been read “ as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well .” Alcott “ combines many conventions of the sentimental novel with crucial ingredients of Romantic children ’ s fiction, creating a new form of which Little Women is a unique model .” Elbert argued that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the “ American Girl ” and that her multiple aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters.

Stephen Crane published his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, in March 1893 at the age of 21.

Post-Colonial perspectives on the vampire legend are provided in Nalo Hopkinson's novel Brown Girl In The Ring ( 1998 ), which features the Soucouyant, a vampire of Caribbean folklore, and in Tananarive Due's My Soul to Keep ( 1995 ) and its sequel The Living Blood ( 2001 ).

Ali Smith's 2007 novel Girl Meets Boy is based on Ovid's story of Iphis and Ianthe, and is part of the Canongate Myth Series.

Kovalevskaya wrote several non-mathematical works as well, including a memoir, A Russian Childhood, plays ( in collaboration with Duchess Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler ) and a partly autobiographical novel, Nihilist Girl ( 1890 ).

The Abbey was one of two major locations for the 2008 film version of the historical novel The Other Boleyn Girl.

* Cheshire cats is the name given to the widespread genetically engineered cats appearing in the biopunk novel The Windup Girl.

* The Forever Girl by Rebecca Hamilton-the protagonist lives in modern day Colorado, though parts of the novel date to Salem in the late 1600s.

Laurie ’ s later film appearances include Sense and Sensibility ( 1995 ), adapted by and starring Emma Thompson ; the Disney live-action film 101 Dalmatians ( 1996 ), where he played Jasper, one of the bumbling criminals hired to kidnap the puppies ; Elton ’ s adaptation of his novel Inconceivable, Maybe Baby ( 2000 ); Girl From Rio ; the 2004 remake of The Flight of the Phoenix ; and the three Stuart Little films.

* A race of mutant kangaroo – human hybrids in the graphic novel and film Tank Girl

The road of yellow brick is an element in the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, with additional such roads appearing in The Marvelous Land of Oz and The Patchwork Girl of Oz.

In William J. Mann's novel The Biograph Girl ( 2000 ), Mann asks the question, " What if Florence Lawrence didn't die in 1938 from eating ant poison, but is 106 and living in a nursing home in Buffalo, New York?

* A Virtuous Girl, novel, 1930

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.

In them, there is usually a group of Anglo-Americans with tragicomic problems, worthy of being explored either in the novel or in the play or in comedy and satire ''.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

Such associations suit well with the gothic or mystery-story aspects of Dickens' novel, but, on a deeper plane, they relate to the themes of sin, guilt, and pursuit that have recently been analyzed by other critics.

The novel opens with a fugitive convict frantically trying to avoid the nemesis of being `` laid hands on '' -- a mysterious figure who looks into Pip's frightened eyes in the churchyard `` as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in ''.

Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.

Dr. H. V. Hilprecht, Professor of Assyrian at the University of Pennsylvania, dreamed that a Babylonian priest, associated with the king Kurigalzu, ( 1300 B.C. ) escorted him to the treasure chamber of the temple of Bel, gave him six novel points of information about a certain broken relic, and corrected an error in its identification.

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

Carson McCullers, after a long, painful illness that might have crushed a less-indomitable soul, has come back with an absolute gem of a novel which jumped high on best-seller lists even before official publication.

F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the latter type of ambiguity with notable effect in his novel The Great Gatsby.

The novel begins with the droogs sitting in their favorite hangout ( the Korova Milkbar ), drinking milk-drug cocktails, called " milk-plus ", to hype themselves for the night's mayhem.

In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).

* The Narrator: presents himself at the outset of the book as witness to the events and privy to documents, but does not identify himself with any character until the ending of the novel.

What interests him, he tells Rieux, is how to become a saint, even though he does not believe in God .</ br > Later in the novel, Tarrou tells Rieux, with whom he has become friends, the story of his life.

Rieux returns to the theme at the end of the novel, after the epidemic is over, when the depth of the feelings of exile and deprivation is clear from the overwhelming joy with which long parted lovers and family members greet each other.

Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

In the novel, the Society uses the Babbage engines along with a statistical science called Cliology to predict and manipulate future history.

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.