The book's popularity with young boys surprised him.

The landscape and features of the Thames as described by Jerome are virtually unchanged, and the book's enduring popularity has meant that it has never been out of print since it was first published.

These views may have played a role in the book's gradual fall from popularity.

The book's phenomenal popularity may be because it was essentially an unofficial requirement for every Chinese citizen to own, to read, and to carry it at all times during the latter half of Mao's rule, especially during the Cultural Revolution.

Part of the book's appeal, in addition to its poetical astronomy, was its notoriety as a Reformist text: Palingenius was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books by the Inquisition and consequently enjoyed popularity in Protestant regions across Europe.

The people who bought the first copies pioneered the book's popularity, and those copies are considered precious.

Two theatrical productions in 1835 – several months after the book's publication – sustained its popularity and increased the public's regard for Balzac.

As an indication of his book's popularity and of the semi-Tychonic system, it was reprinted in 1640 and 1663.

The book's popularity, however, caused its staff to consider additional titles.

The book's popularity was largely due to Robinson's promise that wild gardening could be easy and beautiful ; that the use of hardy perennials would be less expensive and offer more variety than the frequent mass planting of greenhouse annuals ; and that it followed nature, which he considered the source of all true design.

The book's popularity helped to spread the popularity of this sport beyond the school.

The book fulfilled the authors ' expectations and became a bestseller in 1969 ; they revealed the hoax later that year, further spurring the book's popularity.

He eventually causes the downfall of his book's popularity, and things go back to normal.

( It is thought that the title added to this book's immediate and continuing popularity: many other works – Ben Ish Hai, Chayei Adam and others – are also concise, and suitable for laypersons or summaries of the Shulchan Aruch but did not reach the level of the Kitzur's popularity.

Though Beatus may have written his commentaries as a response to Adoptionism in Hispania of the late 700s, many believe that the book's popularity in monasteries stemmed from the presence in Iberia of Islam, which the Christian religious believed to represent the Antichrist.

In particular, the book focuses on the case of Billy McCune, a convicted rapist whose death sentence was commuted to life in prison during the climax of the book's popularity.

Due to the book's popularity, it became the first Simon Templar story to be adapted for film.

The book's enduring popularity, however, has as much to do with a critical yet sympathetic view of human nature and the human condition.

Despite the labor difficulties Baltar experienced with Tyrol on New Caprica, the book's popularity leads to Tyrol calling a general strike and exacerbates the fleet's already strained social order.

The book's popularity led to the construction of a statue by Nancy Schön in the Public Garden of the mother duck and her eight ducklings, which is a popular destination for children and adults alike.

But, a negative critique from his academic rival Vincent Taft spelled the demise of the book's popularity as well as Tom's father's career.

In response to the book's growing popularity among Uyghurs, in February 1991, the Xinjiang CPC Propaganda Department and the Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences jointly organized an academic conference to discuss the historical claims in Uyghurlar, as well as those in two of Almas's other books.

On February 17, 1835, after the committee had selected the book's contents, the committee wrote that the resulting work represents " our belief, and when we say this, humbly trust, the faith and principles of this society as a body.

The church membership at the time had not yet seen the Doctrine and Covenants manuscript as it had been compiled and revised solely by the committee ; however, various church members who were familiar with the work " bore record " of the book's truth.

There is also an evident consensus among popular authors that he predicted whatever major event had just happened at the time of each book's publication, from the Apollo moon landings, through the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, to the events of 9 / 11: this ' movable feast ' aspect appears to be characteristic of the genre.

Women's speed skating was not very high-profile ; in Skøytesportens stjerner ( Stars of the skating sport ), a Norwegian work from 1971, no female skaters are mentioned on the book's nearly 200 pages, though they had by then competed for nearly 30 years.

When M. Night Shyamalan first conceived the idea for Unbreakable, the outline originally had a comic book's traditional three-part structure ( the superhero's " birth ", his or her struggles against general evil-doers, and the hero's ultimate battle against the " archenemy ").

* June 24 – First published review of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, in a British magazine ; the book's first edition had appeared earlier in June in England.

All but one of the stories had been previously published elsewhere, although Bradbury revised some of the texts for the book's publication.

* Similarly, the band Pearls Before Swine had a song by the same title of the book's " The Rocket Man ".

Bao stated that he initially had some doubts about the book's authenticity, but that these were mostly resolved by the time of the book's publication.

He also produced the second ( 1972 ) and third ( 1979 ) editions of The Elements of Style, by which time the book's length had extended to eighty-five pages.

However, later research indicated that Stowe did not read many of the book's cited works until after she had published her novel.

In the years following the book's publication, responses to the tale were published by W. M. Swepstone ( Christmas Shadows, 1850 ), Horatio Alger ( Job Warner's Christmas, 1863 ), Louisa May Alcott ( A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True, 1882 ), and others who followed Scrooge's life as a reformed man – or some who thought Dickens had gotten it wrong and needed to be corrected.

On the basis of the book's success, Pazder developed a high media profile, gave lectures and training on SRA to law enforcement, and, by September 1990, had acted as a consultant on more than 1, 000 SRA cases, including the McMartin preschool trial.

During this period, Bakshi reread J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, which he had first read in high school, and saw parallels between his situation and that of the book's protagonist, Holden Caulfield.

The book's title is a reference to the means by which farm-based societies conquered populations of other areas and maintained dominance, despite sometimes being vastly out-numbered – superior weapons provided immediate military superiority ( guns ); Eurasian diseases weakened and reduced local populations, who had no immunity, making it easier to maintain control over them ( germs ), and centralized government promoted nationalism and powerful military organizations ( steel ).

Consequently, CAIR brought a federal civil lawsuit against Dave Gaubatz and his son ( who had obtained the book's CAIR source documents as a CAIR intern ) for allegedly stealing the documents.

The writers decided to change the book's setting from London to Chicago because they were more familiar with the city and it also had a " great alternative music scene ", according to Pink.

After lengthy discussion with Hobbes, the Parisian Abraham Bosse created the etching for the book's famous frontispiece in the geometrico style which Bosse himself had refined.

A constantly repeated theme in the book's background are the social, cultural and physical differences between these two locations: Norrland is more sedate, conservative and slow-moving in comparison with the cosmopolitan Stockholm ; a Stockholmer having to live for an extended period in Norrland feels " exiled to the back of beyond "; Norrland is also colder and a Stockholmer coming there must urgently buy warmer clothes ; Norrlanders often speak regional dialects which Stockholm people find nearly incomprehensible ; Stockholm people look down their noses at " a working class boy from Norrland " even when he had lived many years in Stockholm.

The court ruled in summary judgement that no defamation had occurred, as the book's claims were opinions based on research or were not provably false.

This use of the book's universe was approved by Kipling after a direct petition of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement, who had originally asked for the author's permission for the use of the Memory Game from Kim in his scheme to develop the morale and fitness of working-class youths in cities.

" At least part of the negative academic reception to Sexual Personae can be attributed to Paglia's ignoring such prominent structuralist / post-structuralist thinkers as Althusser, Derrida, Foucault and Lacan, knowledge of whom had become de rigueur in the academic humanities by the book's 1990 publication.