The novel's 50, 110 words do not contain a single e. In Gadsbys introduction Wright says his primary difficulty was avoiding the "- ed " suffix for past tense verbs.

The primary engine of the novel's story is overpopulation and its projected consequences, and the title refers to an early twentieth-century claim that the world's population could fit onto the Isle of Wight – which has an area of – if they were all standing upright.

A-Qing begins to hang out at a park called New Park, a gay cruising area and hangout for gay men, where he meets the novel's other primary characters.

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.

Trumper's narration meanders through flashbacks revolving around his relationships with the novel's two primary female characters: Sue ' Biggie ' Kunft, a former championship downhill skier whom Trumper courts, impregnates, and marries in Vienna while still a student, and Tulpen, Trumper's present day live-in girlfriend, a documentary film editor in New York, where he lands after losing Biggie.

* Chuck E. Muckle-the " vice president of something-or-other " at Mother Paula's All-American Pancake House, and the novel's primary antagonist.

* Piaimã: A cannibalistic Peruvian giant and commercian and the novel's primary main antagonist.

The main house, the foot path leading from the main house to the battery overlooking the river Dart and the battery itself ( where the murder occurs ) are described in detail since the movements of the novel's protagonist at these locations are integral to the plot and the denouement of the murderer.

Stegner's use of Mary Hallock Foote's historical letters gives the novel's locations — Leadville, New Almaden, Idaho, and Mexico — an authentic feel ; the letters also add vividness to the Wards ' struggles with the environment, shady businessmen, and politicians.

Details from the 1830s also appear in the novel's geographic locations.

Lummis's goal was to discourage the novel's association with other properties, as was Adam Clark Vroman's Ramona Illustrated: The Genesis of the Story of Ramona, which compared photographs of the rancho's buildings and environs with text from the novel, as well as photographs from competing locations.

" 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.

At the novel's end, the question of whether or not the Time Lords will be restored remains unanswered, although if the events of the novel are to tie in with later events in the TV series it must be assumed that Gallifrey was at some point restored, only to be destroyed again during the events of the Time War.

Regardless of its provenance, the novel's increasingly grim outlook can take readers aback, as characters whom Thackeray — and the reader — at first hold in sympathy are shown to be unworthy of such regard.

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.

Kentucky and New Orleans figure in both Henson's narrative and the novel's settings, and some other story elements are similar.

The novel indicates that Earth had experienced a nuclear world war ( the " Wet Firecracker War ") in the past century, although no significant traces of devastation are apparent at the time of the novel's setting.

Other reasons included the novel's teaching that females are equal to males and that animals are personified and can speak.

The world's most talented children, including the novel's protagonist, Ender Wiggin, are taken at a very young age to a training center known as the Battle School.

Also notable for its use of what Crane called a " psychological portrayal of fear ", the novel's allegorical and symbolic qualities are often debated by critics.

The novel's two most familiar characters are David's sometime mentor, the debt-ridden Micawber, and the devious and fraudulent clerk, Uriah Heep, whose misdeeds are eventually revealed with Micawber's assistance.

The novel's popularity has resulted in the term " Room 101 " being used to represent a place where unpleasant things are done.

In this novel's fictional setting other novels written by Farmer are discussed and the characters are symbolically integrated into the delusions of fictional patients. This particular novel was then applied to real-life clinical settings.

A third branch of the family, the Mourets, descended from Macquart and Dide's daughter, are then introduced before the novel's focus is brought back to the " present ", the night of the coup, via a quite brilliantly told love story.

" Spider Robinson, reviewing a mid-1970s reissue, faulted the novel's characterizations, saying " there are no real people in it, only psychological types and syndromes walking around on legs.

Parts of the novel's action are set during the French Revolution.

Among the members of the New Underground is Doremus Jessup, the novel's protagonist, a traditional liberal and an opponent of both Corpoism and communist theories, which are suppressed by Windrip's administration.

The novel's review in The Sunday Times of February 20, 1921, quoted the publisher's promotional blurb concerning Christie writing the book as the result of a bet that she would not be able to do so without the reader being able to guess the murderer, then said, " Personally we did not find the " spotting " so very difficult, but we are free to admit that the story is, especially for a first adventure in fiction, very well contrived, and that the solution of the mystery is the result of logical deduction.

The most compelling characters are also the most tragic, as Caddy and Quentin cannot survive within the context of the society whose values they reject as best they can, and it is left to Jason, unappealing but competently pragmatic, to maintain the status quo, as illustrated by the novel's ending.

Some minor plot details are different as well in this story, such as the protagonist's occupation ( an editor for a video game magazine ) and the story is told from a first-person perspective instead of the novel's third-person perspective.

He and the other two musketeers Athos and Aramis are friends of the novel's protagonist, d ' Artagnan ( see D ' Artagnan Romances ).

In The Three Musketeers, he and the other two musketeers Porthos and Aramis are friends of the novel's protagonist, d ' Artagnan.

Throughout the novel's latter sections, there are references to an " Eye ".

* Much of the James Patterson thriller, The Big Bad Wolf, is set at the FBI Academy at Quantico where the novel's protagonist, Alex Cross, attends numerous courses and training programs.

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 novel's title itself refers to a quest undertaken by most of the inhabitants of Carter-Zimmerman (" C-Z "), a polis devoted to physics and understanding the cosmos, along with volunteers from throughout the Coalition of Polises.

The novel's plot vaguely resembles actual events that have transpired since the book's publication, to a degree that the author is no longer comfortable with the book being in print for fear that it may inspire similar occurrences (" is now out of print.

* 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.

This detail has certain thematic resonance, as ETA is in many ways the heart of the novel's setting, and a permutation of the American myth of a city upon a hill.

gone with the wind ") was the origin of Mitchell's novel's title as well.

The novel's success brought the " Pollyanna principle " ( along with the adjective " Pollyannaish " and the noun " Pollyannaism ") into the language to describe someone who seems always to be able to find something to be " glad " about no matter what circumstances arise.

For example, Georges de Scudéry, in his preface to Ibrahim ( 1641 ), suggested that a " reasonable limit " for a novel's plot ( a form of " unity of time ") would be one year.