Another source for Defoe's novel may have been Robert Knox's account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon in 1659 in " An Historical Account of the Island Ceylon ," Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons ( Publishers to the University ), 1911.

Virginia ( 1913 ) is a novel by Ellen Glasgow about a wife and mother who in vain seeks happiness by serving her family.

One fiancé, the prominent attorney and Republican Party leader Henry W. Anderson, collaborated with Glasgow and provided copies of his speeches for her novel The Builders.

Although it was published anonymously, the novel's authorship became well known the following year, when her second novel, Phases of an Inferior Planet ( 1898 ), announced on its title page, “ by Ellen Glasgow, author of The Descendant .”

" Glasgow stated that her third novel, The Voice of People ( 1900 ) was an objective view of the poor-white farmer in politics.

Most critics recommended that Glasgow “ stick to the South .” Glasgow regarded the novel a failure.

Glasgow published two more novels, The Builders ( 1919 ) and One Man in His Time ( 1922 ), as well as a set of short stories ( The Shadowy Third and Other Stories ( 1923 ), before producing the novel of greatest personal importance, Barren Ground ( 1925 ).

Sir Walter Scott heard this family legend from a descendant and adopted it for his hero in his novel Quentin Durward, also a name for a Glasgow pub, Quentin Durward pub, established in 1823.

In the 1990s, a novel method of maintaining anaesthesia was developed in Glasgow, UK.

Gray said Glasgow Cathedral was the only location he purposefully visited to make notes about during the writing of the novel ; all other locations he wrote about from memory.

In 2007, she won a Lannan Literary Award, was awarded an honorary DLitt degree from the University of Glasgow, and her novel of that year Day was named Costa Book of the Year in the Costa Book Awards.

Rob Roy MacGregor | Rob Roy in the Crypt of Glasgow Cathedral ( more accurately, the Lower Church of Glasgow Cathedral ), by the Dalziel Brothers, after Sir Walter Scott's novel, Rob Roy.

* Virginia ( novel ), by Ellen Glasgow

John Hodge ( born in 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland ) is an award winning British screenwriter and dramatist, most noted for his adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting into the script for the film of the same title.

A concert by Hawkins in Glasgow, Scotland is the event which brings the fictional Graham and Linda together in the novel The Island ( 2010 ) by R J Price ( better-known as the poet Richard Price ).

Edward Arnold reprised the role of Barney Glasgow in two radio adaptations of the Ferber novel.

The novel was called " a magnificently brisk, funny, dirty, brainy book " by the London Review of Books and is a departure from Gray's usual subject-matter of Glasgow realism and fantasy.

The introduction also hosts a critique of Glasgow City Council's treatment of its culture and heritage in the neglect of the local history museum, and a brief mention of Glasgow's time as the European Capital of Culture in 1990, which would be the subject of a more sustained satire in his novel Something Leather.

Havergal's production of Travels with My Aunt adaptated from the Graham Greene novel of the same title, was first presented in Glasgow in 1989 and then played in the West End where it won an Laurence Olivier Award in 1993, and off Broadway in 1995.

Undoubtedly even the old Southern stalwart Richmond has felt the new wind: William Styron mentions in his latest novel an avenue named for Bankhead McGruder, a Civil War general, now renamed, in typical California fashion, `` Buena Vista Terrace ''.

Given a year to complete the work, Gibson undertook the actual writing out of " blind animal terror " at the obligation to write an entire novel – a feat which he felt he was " four or five years away from ".

Another adaptation, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was produced by Joseph Shaftel Productions ( distributed by Fox-Rank productions ) in 1972, and is felt by many to be the most faithful adaptation to the original novel, with the exception of the omitted scene with the Cheshire Cat ( Roy Kinnear ) replaced by Tweedledum and Tweedledee ( in a scene which remains faithful to their respective scene from Alice Through the Looking Glass ).

The novel was strongly criticised by many feminists, who felt it glorified the abuse of women.

He felt that it was a difficult book to release, and he had written two different endings for the novel, unsure of which to use.

In the novel The Fall ( La Chute ) by Albert Camus, the incident is argued by the main character to be the reason why Jesus chose to let himself be crucified — as he escaped the punishment intended for him while many others died, he felt responsible and died in guilt.

Some decisions for awarding the prize have been controversial, the most famous case being the decision to award the prize in 1919 to Marcel Proust ; this was met with indignation, since many in the public felt that the prize should have gone to Roland Dorgelès for Les Croix de bois, a novel about the First World War.

" Furthermore, in a novel attributed to Oscar Wilde, Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal, Des Grieux makes a passing reference to Antinous as he describes how he felt during a musical performance.

In the novel, Lora May ( not Lora Mae ) is less a gold digger than a woman who has always been dominated by her wealthy husband ; Rita is trying to succeed in a second marriage with a man she has never felt passionate about ; and Deborah is a plain and quiet ex-spinster whose " catch " of a husband has been disappointed in her lack of success in society.

When the writers took the liberty of making Hawkeye a thoracic surgeon in the episode " Dear Dad " ( December 17, 1972 ) even though Trapper was the unit's only thoracic surgeon in the movie and the novel, Rogers felt Trapper was stripped of his credentials.

In the introduction of the 1967 Simon and Schuster book club edition, Bradbury implies that the Nazi book burnings drove him to write the short story " The Fireman " which was the precursor along with the foundation for his novel Fahrenheit 451, stating, " It follows then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human, for in the long sum of history they are one and the same flesh.

To some extent the situation also reflected Fleming's own opinions, expressed in the novel as part of Bond's thoughts, where " her sexual confusion is attributable to women's suffrage "; in addition, as Fleming himself put it in the book: " Bond felt the sexual challenge all beautiful Lesbians have for men.

He moved back to New York City in 1987 for the publication of his second novel, The Rules of Attraction, which follows a group of sexually promiscuous college students and sold fairly well, though Ellis admits he felt he had " fallen off ", after the novel failed to match the success of his debut effort.

Many other incidents in the novel are verifiable in the historical record, including Jefferson owning ( and probably fathering ) slaves, James Wilkinson serving as a double agent for Spain, Alexander Hamilton being challenged to duels by opponents who felt slandered by him, and Burr's trial and acquittal on charges of treason.

Soap, songs, dances, toothpaste, and even a city in Florida were all named for the heroine, and the variety of soft felt hat with an indented crown that was worn in the London stage dramatization of the novel, is known to this day as a trilby.

With the birth of his first child pending, Grey felt compelled to complete his next novel and his first Western, The Heritage of the Desert.

Neither of them gave her the critical acclaim or the commercial success of her first novel ; the main complaints about The Feast of All Saints were that it was too heavy and dense to read easily, and most of the reviews for Cry to Heaven were so savagely negative that Rice felt devastated.

Fowles explained in his follow-up book The Aristos, that the main point behind the novel was to show what he felt to be the danger of class and intellectual divisions in a society where prosperity for the majority was becoming more widespread, particularly power ( whether by wealth or position ) getting into the hands of those intellectually unsuited to handle it.

It was felt that the resources available at the time would not be worthy of the original novel and not do it justice.

In contrast, Atkinson felt that the music positively added to the experience of the novel: " Here, the theatre has come bearing its most memorable gifts.

Food rationing in England came to an end in the year of publication, but its effect is still felt in the egg shortages that are mentioned in the novel.

) It was enthusiastically greeted by readers who thought Waugh had returned to early form with this short comic novel, but later critics have felt that this caused audiences to overrate the book.

He is not without humanity, however ; toward the end of the novel, Peter admits he loved Ender as a baby and felt very angry when Ender would ignore him in favor of Valentine.