He appears to be the killer, but how can he have committed the murder, when he was apparently in conversation with Jane Grey ( the novel's effective heroine ) throughout the flight?

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.

The runaway popularity of the novel inspired jurisdictions to name schools ( Ramona High School in Riverside ), streets, freeways ( the San Bernardino Freeway was originally named the Ramona Freeway ) and towns ( Ramona, California ) after the novel's heroine.

Trilby O ' Ferrall, the novel's heroine, is a half-Irish girl working in Paris as an artists ' model and laundress ; all the men in the novel are in love with her.

The name Murasaki is inspired by a poem that the novel's hero, Genji, improvises when contemplating his first meeting with the novel's heroine, the little girl who will grow up to be " Murasaki ".

The novel's subtitle is " An original story featuring BONITA GRANVILLE famous motion-picture player as the heroine ".

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

Scarlett fails to understand what love is until the novel's end.

San Nicolas appears as the titular isle in Scott O ' Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins, as well as that novel's sequel, Zia.

In the novel's future world, North America is one state comprising the United States, Canada, and Mexico, known as the Organization of North American Nations ( O. N. A. N .).

At the novel's beginning, Becky Sharp is a bright girl with an eye to improving her lot through marrying up the social scale ; though she is thoroughly unsentimental, she is nonetheless portrayed as being a good friend to Amelia.

Even though Jean Valjean is unarguably the novel's main protagonist, he is only introduced in the second book of Part One.

" Doing so retained much of the novel's original lyrical feel, though the book's brevity did result in a sacrifice of some of the " majesty and mystery " found in the novel.

He began writing it in the 1790s and completed it in 1814, a year before his death, though the novel's structure is thought to have been fully mapped out by 1805.

* Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky is the philosopher and intellectual ( though far more so in the image he has created for himself in the novel's provincial backwater than in reality ) who is partly to blame for the revolutionary ideas that fuel the destruction that occurs in the book.

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.

In the novel's future solar system, Neptune's moon Triton supports one of several human societies independent from Earth, which has developed along radically libertarian lines in some ways: though a representative government exists, it has virtually no power to regulate private behavior, and citizens may choose to live in an area where no laws apply at all.

Because of the novel's controversial themes, Hardy had some difficulty finding a publisher ; reviews, however, though somewhat mixed, were generally positive.

This is the only edition currently in print, though reprints of it bear the original novel's title, simply Sanctuary.

Caryn James argued that the novel's violence was a " slap in the face " to modern readers cut off from the brutality of life, while Terrence Morgan thought that, though initially shocking, the effect of the violence gradually waned until the reader was bored.

Technology is progressing, though by time of the novel's setting, but still lags behind our level of technology.

The aliens are indeed Martians ( though the film never states this, but is confirmed with an opening credit sequence using shots of the Red Planet's landscape ), but they bear little resemblance to their novel's counterparts.

The novel's ending indicates that a future Easy Rawlins novel is highly unlikely, though not impossible.

The source novel's origins lie in a picture Leonard saw in the Detroit News of a beautiful young female federal marshal standing in front of a Miami courthouse with a shotgun resting on her hip.

In 1963, Avram Davidson praised the novel's prose for " abound in beautiful, quotable language " and its story as one of " war, witchcraft, adventure, conspiracy, violence, bloodshed, intrigue.

The four main characters are Miriam, a beautiful painter who is compared to Eve, Beatrice Cenci, Lady Macbeth, Judith, and Cleopatra, and is pursued by a mysterious, threatening man who is her " evil genius " through life ; Hilda, an innocent copyist who is compared to the Virgin Mary and the white dove, and whose simple, unbendable moral principles can make her severe in spite of her tender heart ; Kenyon, a sculptor, who represents rationalist humanism ; and Donatello, the Count of Monte Beni, who is compared to Adam, and amazingly resembles the Faun of Praxiteles ; the novel plays with the characters ' belief that the count may be a descendant of the antique Faun, with Hawthorne withholding a definite statement even in the novel's concluding chapter.

William Styron, who once gave a reading of the novel's opening chapter at Boston University, called Revolutionary Road " a deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic.

" Alex's friends (" droogs " in the novel's Anglo-Russian slang, Nadsat ) are: Dim, a slow-witted bruiser who is the gang's muscle ; Georgie, an ambitious second-in-command ; and Pete, who mostly plays along as the droogs indulge their taste for ultra-violence.

In a metafictional touch, the husband is a writer working on a manuscript called " A Clockwork Orange ," and Alex contemptuously reads out a paragraph that states the novel's main theme before shredding the manuscript.

The song is a sorrowful rendition of the novel's story (" It's gone all quiet on the Western Front / Male Angels sigh / ghosts in a flooded trench / As Germany dies ").

The worldwide reality television show Big Brother is based on the novel's concept of people being under constant surveillance.

The novel's structure is in episodic form.

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

Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein is subtitled " The Modern Prometheus ", in reference to the novel's themes of the over-reaching of modern man into dangerous areas of knowledge.

Heinlein reveals near the end of Starship Troopers that the novel's protagonist and narrator, Johnny Rico, the formerly disaffected scion of a wealthy family, is Filipino, actually named " Juancita Rico " and speaks Tagalog in addition to English.

Later still, T. H. White featured Robin and his band in The Sword in the Stone – anachronistically, since the novel's chief theme is the childhood of King Arthur.

The self-titled first season of the anime is a derivative of the light novel's first three volumes.

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.

Also, together with the adjective ağır, which means " heavy " or " slow " in Turkish, Roman is the designation for a special kind of street music, played by some of the novel's protagonists.

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.

By novel's end she is implied to have become an adulteress and a murderess.

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.

Almásy is also at the center of one of the novel's love stories.

Although the novel's fantasy elements ( voodoo and black magic, tarot readings and precognition, ghosts and mysticism ) are secondary to the brutal murder that is the focus of the plot, it is set in the same milieu as Asprin's Griffen McCandles novels ( Dragons series ), Dragons Luck and Dragons Wild.