* Many of the members of Section 9 in the Ghost in the Shell universe, specifically the main characters Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, are cyborgs dependent on regular maintenance ; there are several manga ( or graphic novel ) and artbooks set in the GitS universe, as well as two feature-length anime films, three television series and three video games.

Philip Roth titled the second chapter of his novel " The Ghost Writer " Nathan Dedalus, after the novel's young protagonist Nathan Zuckerman.

Manhattan, Next to Normal, Return to Oz, Private Practice, Ghost Whisperer, From Beyond, the novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Helen, Oz, Six Feet Under, House on Haunted Hill, Royal Pains, The Wolfman, Homeland, Wrong Turn 4, Constantine, Cold Case and Mad Men.

* The character Erik, The Opera Ghost of Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, was supposedly born " in a small town not far from Rouen ".

The Abenaki are featured in Charles McCarry's historical novel Bride of the Wilderness ( 1988 ), and James Archibald Houston's novel Ghost Fox ( 1977 ), both of which are set in the eighteenth century ; and Jodi Picoult's Second Glance ( 2003 ), in the contemporary world.

Martha's Vineyard is also the setting for Robert Harris ' 2007 novel, the political thriller The Ghost.

His final film role was the 1981 adaptation of Peter Straub's novel Ghost Story.

Important precursors of Expressionism were: the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900 ), especially his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( 1883-92 ); the later plays of the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849-1912 ), including the trilogy To Damascus 1898-1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ); Frank Wedekind ( 1864-1918 ), especially the " Lulu " plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit ) ( 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box ) ( 1904 ); the American poet Walt Whitman ( 1819-92 ): Leaves of Grass ( 1855-91 ); the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 1821-81 ); Norwegian painter Edvard Munch ( 1863-1944 ); Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh ( 1853-90 ); Belgian painter James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ); Sigmund Freud ( 1856-1939 ).

The Ghost Road is a novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1995 and winner of the Booker Prize.

* Hoofs of a black donkey: Mentioned in Zhang Muye's fantasy novel Ghost Blows Out the Light

In 2007 Lightman released his most recent novel, Ghost, an examination of the dichotomies of the physical world and the spiritual world, scepticism and faith, the natural and the supernatural, and science and religion.

In later books Zuckerman is given a less indentured form of existence, starting with the 1979 novel The Ghost Writer, where he is the story's protagonist, a writing apprentice on a pilgrimage to cull the wisdom of the reclusive author E. I. Lonoff.

Philip Roth's novel Exit Ghost is the ninth in the Zuckerman series ; the author says it will be his last Zuckerman novel.

William E. Bell's 1989 novel Five Days of the Ghost was also set in Orillia, with many readers recognizing popular local spots, including the Guardian Angels Catholic Church, the Samuel de Champlain statue in Couchiching Beach Park as well as Big Chief Island in the middle of Lake Couchiching.

* Philip Roth's 1979 novel The Ghost Writer

* Robert Harris's 2007 novel The Ghost and its 2010 film adaptation The Ghost Writer by Roman Polanski

* Plimpton appears as a character in Philip Roth's novel, Exit Ghost.

The exploits of the Novo Ecijano guerillas have in fact been made into literature, through the World War II novel Ghost Soldiers  by Hampton Sides and in Hollywood cinema, in the war film The Great Raidbased on the book.

A fictionalized account of Hunt's role in the Bay of Pigs operation appears in Norman Mailer's 1991 novel Harlot's Ghost.

Harris also discussed the adaptation of his novel, " The Ghost " that came out as the movie, " The Ghost Writer " directed by Roman Polanski.

Even in its present form, however, the first part of Malraux's unrecoverable novel is among the greatest works of mid-twentieth century literature ; ;

Many people, however, became members of the French Resistance, and they are the allegorical equivalents of the voluntary sanitary teams in the novel, such as Tarrou, Rambert, and Grand, who fight back against the unspeakable evil ( the Nazi occupiers ).

This novel is the first of a series of novels primarily about the life and times of Robert the Bruce however it covers Alexander III and the circumstances surrounding his death in some detail.

This picture, however, is undergoing revision in light of emerging novel roles for RNA.

In the State of Israel, however, Pasternak's novel was sharply criticized for its assimilationist views towards toward the Jewish people.

Medieval sources referred to armour of this type simply as “ mail ”, however “ chain-mail ” has become a commonly-used, if incorrect neologism first attested in Sir Walter Scott ’ s 1822 novel The Fortunes of Nigel.

Prior to Nazism, however, the term was used throughout Germanic language countries without negative connotations ( e. g. in Hermann Broch's novel The Sleepwalkers ), or often to refer to their homelands much as the word " motherland " does.

Lewis's tale appalled some contemporary readers ; however his portrayal of depraved monks, sadistic inquisitors and spectral nuns, and his scurrilous view of the Catholic Church was an important development in the genre and influenced established terror-writer Anne Radcliffe in her last novel The Italian ( 1797 ).

The outcome, however, “ may prove less horrific than the novel has originally suggested ”.

At the end of the 18th century, however, when the concept of a chemical compound had not yet been fully developed, the law was novel.

In the laboratory, however, mutagenesis is a useful technique for generating mutations that allows the functions of genes and gene products to be examined in detail, producing proteins with improved characteristics or novel function, as well as mutant strains with useful properties.

While Gilbert emphasizes the similarities however, he agrees with all other commentators that Machiavelli was particularly novel in the way he used this genre, even when compared to his contemporaries such as Baldassare Castiglione and Erasmus.

The BBC adapted novels such as The Day of the Triffids ( 1981 ), The Invisible Man ( 1984 ), The Nightmare Man ( 1981, from the novel Child of the Vodyanoi ) and The Tripods ( 1984 – 85 ), which however remained unfinished.

The book is inspired by the failed mutiny on board the Storozhevoy by Valery Sablin in 1975 ; however, the military response depicted in the novel is likely from events surrounding the sinking and subsequent salvaging of K-129.

Today, this version of the novel is considered to be a significant literary event in the history of Argentine literature ; however, when published it did not bring any great renown to the author, nor did the publication of Gombrowicz's drama Ślub in Spanish ( The Marriage, El Casamiento ) in 1948.

American critic Samuel Rogers, however, notes that " without the training they gave Balzac, as he groped his way to his mature conception of the novel, and without the habit he formed as a young man of writing under pressure, one can hardly imagine his producing La Comédie Humaine.

This time is chronicled in the novel Cain's Book, which at the time became something of a sensation, being an honest study of heroin addiction with descriptions of sex and drug use that got it banned in Britain, where the book was the subject of an obscenity trial ; in America, however, it received favourable reviews.

Based on the novel by Josephine Hart and directed by veteran French director Louis Malle, Damage seemed to be the ideal international vehicle for Binoche ; however the production was wrought with difficulties and dogged by rumours of serious conflict.

* Anthony Burgess claimed in a 1972 interview to have written a plan for a novel about the Black Prince which would incorporate John Dos Passos ' narrative techniques: however, the actual novel remains unwritten and / or unplublished.

Pliny does not name the prostitute ; however, the Restoration playwright Nathaniel Richards calls her Scylla in The Tragedy of Messalina, Empress of Rome, published in 1640, and Robert Graves in his novel Claudius the God also identified the prostitute as Scylla.

* Alan Dean Foster's 1983 novel The Man Who Used the Universe follows the machinations of a similarly obsessive and morally neutral man ; however his ultimate goal is not immediately apparent.

The robotic character R. Daneel Olivaw was the first to give the Zeroth Law a name in the novel Robots and Empire however the character Susan Calvin articulates the concept in the short story " The Evitable Conflict ".

Some critics argue that the novel champions middle classes over the lower orders ; others, however, find this claim " too simplistic " and argue that the novel " highlights the shortfalls inherent to bourgeois masculinity.