Philip Roth titled the second chapter of his novel " The Ghost Writer " Nathan Dedalus, after the novel's young protagonist Nathan Zuckerman.

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.

* John Percival Hackworth — The novel's second protagonist.

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.

The U. K. publication of Funeral in Berlin brought on a lawsuit ; at the novel's climax, the protagonist and Hallam meet at a fireworks party where they discuss the hazards of fireworks.

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

Present-day Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø referenced Thorvaldsen's " Jason " in the novel " The Devil's Star ", where the novel's detective protagonist is reminded of the statue when investigating a murder which happened in an Oslo apartment with neo-Classical furnishings.

The novel's protagonist encounters the procession while hallucinating from hunger in the Appalachian Mountains.

The novel's protagonist is Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, daughter of the deceased Henry II and the infamous scheming Catholic power player Catherine de ' Medici.

The novel's protagonist, Pavel Korchagin, represented the " young hero " of Russian literature: he is dedicated to his political causes, which help him to overcome his tragedies.

The novel's protagonist Levinson is a Bolshevik revolutionary who has a high level of political consciousness.

In the early 1930s the novel's male protagonist, the controversial architect Howard Roark, gets a contract to build in Clayton the ( fictional ) Janer's Department Store, a five-storey building.

The novel's protagonist, Tita, is kept from happiness and marriage by her mother.

As such it was central to George Orwell's novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying, as a symbol of the middle class's need to maintain respectability-according to Gordon Comstock, the novel's protagonist.

His relationship with Jim Hawkins, the novel's protagonist, is interesting, as he serves as a mentor and eventually father-figure to Jim, creating much shock and emotion when it is discovered that he is in charge of the mutiny, and especially when Jim must confront and fight him later on.

The novel's protagonist and antihero, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon for teenage rebellion.

Another example is in the dystopian novel, A Clockwork Orange in which the novel's anti-hero and protagonist, Alex, is undergoes a procedure called the Ludovico technique, where he is fed a solution to cause severe nausea and then forced to watch violent acts.

In 2008, Plum Pictures announced plans for a Hollywood version of the novel, the movie to be written by playwright and screenwriter Tristine Skyler and Julia Stiles to star as the novel's protagonist, with Rose McGowan as Doreen.

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.

* 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.

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.

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.

The novel's protagonist is Sarah Woodruff, the Woman of the title, also known unkindly as “ Tragedy ” and by the unfortunate nickname “ The French Lieutenant ’ s Whore ”.

That embedded story itself contains a third tale, the eponymous Blind Assassin, a science fiction story told by Alex's fictional counterpart to the second novel's protagonist, believed to be Laura's fictional counterpart.

Uncle Tom became what critic Linda Williams describes as " an epithet of servility " and the novel's reputation plummeted until feminist critics led by Jane Tompkins reassessed the tale's female characters.

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.

* 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.

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.

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.

F & SF reviewer Charles de Lint gave the novel a mixed review ; while praising Erikson's craftsmanship in writing and " world-building ," de Lint faulted the novel's " lack of any believable female characters " and characterized Gardens as " a fantasy novel that evokes sense of wonder or awe.

Algis Budrys found the novel's premise appealing, praising Brin's " really first-rate SFnal idea ," but its execution disappointing, leaving little of interest but plot details once the central mystery was explained at the novel's midpoint, " and as a plotsmith Brin is just another guy.

The river is mentioned several times in Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient as a place where Hana, one of the novel's main characters, once lived.

The bucket splash that supposedly ends her life connects to the novel's fable of Saint Aelphaba, for whom Elphaba is named, who was said to disappear beyond a waterfall, she returned several hundred years later before once again disappearing behind the waterfall.

Although the seduction is successful, things do not quite play out the way Ludvik expects ( this is the novel's third joke ), and he is left once more to sit and think bitter thoughts.

She appears again in Parkin's BBC novel The Infinity Doctors, where she was once married to that novel's version of the Doctor, who may be separate from normal continuity.

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.

As for the novel's historical accuracy, researchers have cast doubts on whether Haley truly tracked down his ancestry to a specific village and individual, or was merely being told what he wanted to hear by the people who lived there.

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

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.

Because of its polemical themes and Wright's involvement with the Communist Party, the novel's final part, " American Hunger ," was not published until 1977.

This time Ito and the novel's author Mansaku Arashi were summoned and interrogated harshly, until when the investigators found out that Arashi was related to a former prime minister of Japan.

Because of the rapid non-linear motion of the novel's events, the narrator has often referred to Manus as Seth, an identity given to him by Brandy, and it is not until this moment in the novel that the reader learns that Manus and Seth are the same person.

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.

The novel's focus on big tobacco was retained until the 1999 film The Insider was released, necessitating a plot change from tobacco to gun companies.

This novel's manuscript, that employed Welk for a long time, was already finished in 1940 but not published until 1953 in East Germany

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.

The first five chapters of the novel were available prior to the novel's publication via free download from the official Dune website, released monthly from March until July in 2006.

The torture Bond suffers at the hands of Le Chiffre briefly upsets 007's confidence in his profession, and he toys with the idea of leaving the service until the novel's conclusion, when a new threat emerges.