TSR had doubts about the finished novel's sales potential, and attempted to order thirty thousand copies, ultimately ordering the minimum print run of fifty thousand.

In an interview in 2009, the novel's author Derek Robinson remarked that when the novel was first published in the UK in 1983, it sold very poorly although sales were better in the US.

Two years after its publication many of the novel's events were corroborated by Melville's fellow castaway, Richard T. Greene.

This version of the novel differed greatly from Crane's original manuscript ; the deletions were thought by some scholars to be due to demands by an Appleton employee who was afraid of public disapproval of the novel's content.

Boucher and McComas, however, were more sceptical, finding fault with the novel's " curious imbalance between its large-scale history and a number of episodic small-scale stories.

" The novel has also been dismissed by a number of literary critics as " merely a sentimental novel ," while critic George Whicher stated in his Literary History of the United States that " Nothing attributable to Mrs. Stowe or her handiwork can account for the novel's enormous vogue ; its author's resources as a purveyor of Sunday-school fiction were not remarkable.

The novel's references to his being the child of an immigrant from Greece were ignored, and Nick was now the black sheep of a respectable WASP professional family who turned his back on the family profession of medicine because of his passion for detective work.

The novel's description more closely resembles Fort Drum ( which was taken in a later operation ) but the incendiary methods used were pioneered at Caballo island's mortar pits.

The novel's two storylines increasingly converge in the last chapters ( the intersecting lines forming a V-shape, as it were ), as Stencil hires Benny to travel with him to Malta.

The Wimsey Papers were a series of articles published by Sayers during World War II, purporting to be letters written between the various Wimseys during the war ( similar to Busman's Honeymoon, Sayers's last completed Wimsey novel, the novel's prologue consists entirely of selections from these letters ).

The novel's protagonist, Tod Hackett ( whose first name likely derives from the German word for death and whose last name refers to a common epithet for Hollywood screenwriters and artists, who were pejoratively called " hacks "), is a set painter who aspires to artistic greatness.

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.

The novel's political criticism was clear, but most readers were moved by its romantic vision of colonial California under Spanish and Mexican rule.

Prior to the novel's publication, two excerpts were published: " Calla Bryn Sturgis " was published in 2001 on Stephen King's official site, and " The Tale of Gray Dick " was published in 2003 in McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales.

Shadow of the Moon and Trade Wind, although originally published prior to The Far Pavilions, were reissued after that novel's success.

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.

Others were critical of the novel's bleakness, that humanity has no free will and that their fate lies in the hands of galactic empires.

Two more Lord Darcy novels, Ten Little Wizards ( 1988 ), and A Study in Sorcery ( 1989 ), were written by Garrett's friend Michael Kurland after Garrett's death — the two names manifestly modeled on those of famous detective novels by, respectively, Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle, as that of Too Many Magicians was modeled on a famous novel by Rex Stout ( whose Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have counterparts in the novel's universe in the Marquis de London and his Special Investigator, Lord Bontriomphe ).

The novel's rights were sold to director Alexander Payne in January 1997.

" However, there were detractors, who largely disagreed with the novel's " unpleasant characters and subject ".

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

In as much as the candidate preferred by the Whig Party for the throne was William of Orange, the novel's stern reminders of Dutch atrocities in Surinam and powerful insistence on the divine and emanate nature of royalty were likely designed to awaken Tory objections.

Aldous Huxley biographer Sybille Bedford claims in her fictive memoir Jigsaw that the novel's characters Mary Amberley, a drug addict, and her daughter, were partly inspired by her own experiences with her morphine-addicted mother and herself, known to Huxley because they were neighbours in the south of France.

Chief among these were disciples of the utopian theorist Charles Fourier ; they disapproved of the " immorality " inherent in the novel's bleak resolution.

Fleming hinted so in You Only Live Twice, in Bond's obituary, that his adventures were the basis of a series of " sensational novels "; illustrating this contention, that novel's comic strip adaptation used covers from Fleming's James Bond novels.

The 1985 film adaptation echoed the form by incorporating into the script some of the novel's letters, which the actors spoke as monologues.

A novel published in 2006 by Laura Esquivel casts the Nahua, Malinalli, as one of history's pawns who becomes Malinche ( the novel's title ) a woman " trapped between the Mexican civilization and the invading Spaniards, and unveils a literary view of the legendary love affair ".

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.

Musically, the novel's wider, cultural influence is evidenced in the science fiction, death metal band Nocturnus who sing, inspired by the novel, the " Andromeda Strain " on their début album, The Key ; the Progressive metal band Shadow Gallery have a song titled " The Andromeda Strain ," about genetically engineered biological weapons, on their album Room V ; and Klaus Schulze has a concert recording titled " Andromeda Strain.

At the time of the novel's initial publication in 1851 Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of minstrel shows ; Stowe's melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slavery for White audiences by portraying Tom as a Christlike figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because Tom refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who escape from slavery.

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.

Selznick fought to remain true to the novel's origins and prevailed, and the role went to Freddie Batholomew after an extensive talent search in Canada and Great Britain by Selznick and George Cukor.

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.

Every edition contained new illustrations by Mark Geyer, the novel's original illustrator.

In regards to the triffids ' creation, some editions of the novel make brief mention of the theories of the Soviet agronomist and would-be biologist Trofim Lysenko ; eventually thoroughly debunked, Lysenkoism at the time of the novel's creation was still being defended by some prominent international Stalinists.

In putting together the story he was heavily influenced by the folklore and landscape of the neighbouring Alderley Edge where he had grown up as a child, taking the local legend of " The Wizard Under the Hill " as a partial basis for the novel's plot.

American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, a volume co-authored by Theodore Dwight Weld and the Grimké sisters, is also a source of some of the novel's content.

" The beginning of this change in the novel's perception had its roots in an essay by James Baldwin titled " Everybody ’ s Protest Novel.

The line is further blurred by novelists such as Kim Stanley Robinson, whose alternate-history novel The Years of Rice and Salt has a character talking of historians ' use of counterfactuals, within the novel's alternate history.

* The Armourer's House by Rosemary Sutcliff includes a telling of the Tam Lin tale, which parallels the novel's theme of a young girl struggling to obtain her dreams.

Kazantzakis argues in the novel's preface that by facing and conquering all of man's weaknesses, Jesus struggled to do God's will, without ever giving in to the temptations of the flesh.