The novel's blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernism ; it prefigures the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway and echoes the works of contemporaries such as Edith Wharton and Henry James.

Greg Iles refers to Raymond Chandler and the novel's title in his own novel The Quiet Game, and names one of his characters Marston.

In the last chapter the novel's hero Oskar Matzerath and his friend Gottfried von Vittlar steal a tram late at night from outside Unterrath depot on the northern edge of Düsseldorf.

Richard Adams quotes a portion of the novel's last sentence for the epigraph to Chapter 50 in his Watership Down ; the reference to the General is felicitous, as the villain in Watership Down is also a General.

" The phrase is used again in the novel's last sentence: " How green was my Valley then, and the Valley of them that have gone.

In the novel's last sentences, he explains that he and Fielding cannot be friends, at least not until India is free of the British Raj.

The novel's two storylines increasingly converge in the last chapters ( the intersecting lines forming a V-shape, as it were ), as Stencil hires Benny to travel with him to Malta.

The book's title comes from the novel's famous last lines.

The Wimsey Papers were a series of articles published by Sayers during World War II, purporting to be letters written between the various Wimseys during the war ( similar to Busman's Honeymoon, Sayers's last completed Wimsey novel, the novel's prologue consists entirely of selections from these letters ).

Asimov's short story " Gold ", one of the last he wrote in his life, describes the efforts of fictional computer animators to create a " compu-drama " from the novel's second section.

The novel's protagonist, Tod Hackett ( whose first name likely derives from the German word for death and whose last name refers to a common epithet for Hollywood screenwriters and artists, who were pejoratively called " hacks "), is a set painter who aspires to artistic greatness.

Toward the novel's end, Ellis writes the ' last ' Bateman story as a way of confronting and controlling the character, as well as the issues Ellis created Bateman as a means of countering.

This was the last of MacLean's classic sequence of first person narratives which began with Night Without End, and represented a return to that earlier novel's Arctic setting.

Like her estranged husband before her ( whom she purportedly assisted in relegating to a hole in her backyard ), Jane takes a turn at narration, providing for the novel's conclusion ; addressing her husband with ultimatums and effrontery, the reader sees life from the last member of the core Marcus-family trinity, at which point the reader is left to draw her or his own conclusions.

The novel's title comes from a line in the Gettysburg Address: " It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

This album was mentioned in the last chapter of Gravity's Rainbow, where it is suggested that one of the novel's characters went on to play with the band.

Adeline's Catholic mercy, on the other hand, fails to redeem her husband, and her children are similarly powerless – as Victorin finally admits on the novel's last page.

This part of the story is yet to be told in the novel's last volume, and Donnie's death by Yomiko's awakening power is the only known factor, why Yomiko killed him is unknown.

The novel's title is also namechecked in the Regurgitator album Tu-plang on the track " Miffy's Simplicity ", as band member Ben Ely was reading the book at the time.

The novel's protagonist, a female starship captain Rydra Wong, once lived in a triple, until one member died and another was put in stasis for an incurable illness.

One of the novel's primary characters, Gately is physically enormous, a reluctant but dedicated Alcoholics Anonymous member, and intricately ( though not obviously ) connected to both the Enfield Tennis Academy and the international struggle to seize the master copy of the Entertainment.

Stavia, the novel's heroine, is the younger daughter of Morgot, an important member of the Marthatown Council.

The novel's protagonist is a hard-working bank clerk Gustad Noble, a member of the Parsi community and a devoted family man struggling to keep his wife Dilnavaz, and three children out of poverty.

Years later, Rod is briefly depicted accomplishing his heart's desire ; the novel's ending finds him preparing to lead a formal colonization party to another planet.

However, not only did development lead nowhere, there was much stress brought on by the project as time was limited before the novel's rights would revert to Rice.

During the several years between the novel's publication and the film's production, Peter Sellers reportedly engaged in a determined quest to obtain the rights to bring the story to the screen and portray its lead character, sending several postcards and letters signed " Chance " to Jerzy Kosinski and Hal Ashby.

* In Keith Taylor's novel Bard II, Koschei appears to menace Felimid mac Fal, a roving Irish bard who is the novel's lead character, and his lover Gudrun Blackhair, a female pirate chieftain.

Though Rob Roy is not the lead character ( in fact, the narrative does not move to Scotland until halfway through the book ), his personality and actions are key to the novel's development.

Victor Ward is the novel's lead character, who had previously appeared as Victor Johnson in The Rules of Attraction ( 1987 ).

The consequences of their decisions, and a pact made between them, lead them both to Amsterdam where the novel's dénouement plays out.

The novel's lead character, an entertainer named Jody T. Neale, is based on Collins, and the plot details diversion of taxpayer money and other criminal activities by U. S. military officials in the war zone.

* In Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë used the sneer — as perceived by the novel's narrator, the housekeeper Ellen Dean (" Nelly ")— to epitomize Heathcliff's, its lead character's, personality.

* In his novel Ulysses, James Joyce mentions the bird while the novel's main character is drifting into sleep.

In one of his novels, entitled Invitatie la vals, referring to Carl Maria von Weber's " Invitation to the Dance " ( later orchestrated by Berlioz ), a comparison is made between the novel's main character and Manon Lescaut.

The novel's character Judge Fang is based on a creative extension of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee mystery series, which is based around a Confucian judge in ancient China who usually solves three cases simultaneously.

In the novel, a con man claims to be the " Lost Dolphin " of France in order to gain sympathy and charity from the novel's eponymous character.

The line is further blurred by novelists such as Kim Stanley Robinson, whose alternate-history novel The Years of Rice and Salt has a character talking of historians ' use of counterfactuals, within the novel's alternate history.

The off-key happy ending of the film that was released was added at the insistence of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, who refused to approve the novel's logical ending in which Gish's character wandered into a windstorm and died.

The novel's emerging main character is affected in this fashion and eventually marries a woman whose appearance initially hit him like a thunderbolt.

In another departure from Hammett, the dog Asta-an integral character both the book and movies-was a male wire fox terrier, rather than the novel's female schnauzer.

Richardson picked up on two areas relating to the characters of the book, saying that Goldfinger " is the most preposterous specimen yet displayed in Mr. Fleming's museum of super fiends ", whilst, referring to the novel's central character, observed that " the real trouble with Bond, from a literary point of view, is that he is becoming more and more synthetic and zombie-ish.

Both authors used their main characters to address their readers directly ; however, Camus ' narrative was written in the first-person present tense, thus assuming that the reader will join the main character, Clamence, in the novel's imagined sphere of discourse.

This version has apparently pursued a lesbian relationship with a character named Venus ( who seems to be an amalgamation of the various versions of the Goddess of love in literature ) for at least a century and a half as of the Black Dossier and in contrast to the novel's relationships this one seems to be enduring.

In the title of his novel The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann alludes to a passage from The Birth of Tragedy, and the influence of Nietzsche's work can be seen in the novel's character Mynheer Peepercorn, who embodies the " Dionysian principle.

* In Antarctic Navigation by Elizabeth Arthur, the novel's main character first works at McMurdo Station at a menial job, then later returns there in a very different role, leading a polar expedition to retrace the steps of Robert Scott.

Ann Veronica created a sensation when published in the fall of 1909 because of the feminist sensibilities of the heroine and also because of the affair Wells was having with Amber Reeves, the woman who inspired the novel's eponymous character.

While there is a plot involving a series of assassination attempts on the protagonist, the novel's main strengths lie in the unique nature of the setting, character development, structure and the short vignettes on each of the would-be assassins.

In explanatory notes accompanying the novel's 75th anniversary edition, editor Matthew Bruccoli describes the character as being directly based on Arnold Rothstein.

* Bambi Awards, an international television and media prize, named for the novel's titular character and featuring fawn-shaped statuettes

Vidal states that Knowles told him that the character Brinker, who precipitates the novel's crisis, is based on Vidal.

The personal character of the novel's antagonist " Wolf Larsen " was attributed to a real sailor London had known, Captain Alex MacLean.

The novel's central character is Étienne Lantier, previously seen in L ' Assommoir ( 1877 ), and originally to have been the central character in Zola's " murder on the trains " thriller La Bête humaine ( 1890 ) before the overwhelmingly positive reaction to Germinal persuaded him otherwise.

The novel's protagonist is a fictional character who, like Pegahmagabow, serves as a military sniper during World War I, although Pegahmagabow himself appears as a minor character as well.