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.

The off-key happy ending of the film that was released was added at the insistence of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, who refused to approve the novel's logical ending in which Gish's character wandered into a windstorm and died.

The ending for the film was changed from the novel due to the controversy that the novel's ending generated upon its release in 1999.

The Bad Seed was remade as a television movie in 1985, adapted by George Eckstein and directed by Paul Wendkos and kept the novel's original ending.

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.

The novel's ending may owe something to the episode " Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling " from the television series The Prisoner, for which Disch wrote a spinoff novel.

The well-regarded science fiction writer and critic Damon Knight, in In Search of Wonder ( 1956 ), wrote of the novel's " bad taste, inconsistency, irrationality, and downright factual errors ", but called the ending of the book " grotesquely moving ".

The 1939 film uses the original novel's ending ; the 1955 film does not.

The miniseries preserves the novel's tragic ending, but softens and humanizes Studs Lonigan's family and friends to a very considerable degree.

The main sticking point is the novel's ambiguous ending.

The happy ending is quite different from the novel's ending in which Danny dies after a fall, and is totally in keeping with the optimistic, feel-good, MGM movies of that time.

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

Unlike the earlier novel's warnings about Faustian overreaching, this novel's devastating apocalypse strongly suggests that medicine had become too timid and ultimately too late.

Robert Cantú suggests that apocalypse as revelation is the ideological construct that best explains the novel's structure and purpose.

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.

* Disabling a booby trap laid for the British soldiers assaulting Seringapatam ( Cornwell points out in the novel's historical note that there never actually was such a booby trap, and the event was based on a British shell that struck a magazine in the city days earlier );

The New York Times felt it was a " halfhearted narrative device ... suggesting that the novel's action is actually part of a film that's being made.

The novel's prologue, which is set shortly after the end of the story proper, describes the men's flight across the country to a seaside town in Mexico, where they stop to recover from their ordeal.

The novel's time span roughly mirrors that of the Golden Age of Comics itself, starting from shortly after the debut of Superman and concluding with the Kefauver Senate hearings, two events often used to demarcate the era.

Suffering from severe depression, Lockridge committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning shortly after the novel's publication.

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

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

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.

The Belgian band DAAU ( die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung ) is named after one of the advertising slogans of the novel's magical theatre.

Her husband died of anthrax poisoning from an infected shaving brush ( and readers at the time of the novel's publication in the 1930s might well have remembered anthrax deaths from infected shaving brushes during and in the years after World War I ); Mrs. Craddock herself had died not long afterward, of a tropical infection, in Egypt.

Having been written sixteen years after The Sound and the Fury, the appendix presents some textual differences from the novel, but serves to clarify the novel's opaque story.

Science fiction critic Thomas Wagner underscores the desire for meaning, or pattern recognition, using a comparison between the film clips and Cayce's search for her father after the attacks: he very randomness and ineffability of the clips flies in the face of our natural human tendency towards pattern recognition ... he subculture that surrounds " following the footage " ... an effective plot device for underscoring the novel's post-9 / 11 themes: to wit, the uncertainty of the fabric of day-to-day life people began to feel following that event … as people don't like uncertainty, don't like knowing that there's something we can't comprehend.

Although the newest pyramid is huge, black and flares at the top, that image is not related to the Luxor Las Vegas hotel, which was built in 1992, several years after the novel's publication.

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.

Although no record existed of Jackson's having visited there, it too became a popular tourist destination, a status continuing for years after the novel's publication.

The monster's namelessness became part of the stage tradition as Mary Shelley's story was adapted into serious and comic plays in London and Paris during the decades after the novel's first appearance.

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

* Belle & Sebastian, a Scottish indie pop band named after the novel's protagonists

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 title is a reference to the musical technique of counterpoint, and the story is constructed after the fashion of a work of music.

Manzoni was firmly in favour of the dialect of Florence and, after washing his vocabulary on the banks of the Arno ( as he put it ), he revised the novel's language for its republication in 1842.

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.

Slipyj was released by Nikita Khrushchev's administration from a Siberian Gulag in 1963, the year of the novel's publication, after political pressure from Pope John XXIII and United States President John F. Kennedy.

For twenty-two years after the novel's initial publication ( its only availability through a small publisher notwithstanding ), the novel sold 300, 000 copies primarily through word of mouth.

Soon after her death, the novel began to be read again, and from that time onward the factual claims made by the novel's narrator, and the factuality of the whole plot of the novel, have been accepted and questioned with greater and lesser credulity.

It has been suggested that this episode was the inspiration for Frankenstein, although this could not have been the case since Crosse's controversial experiments took place almost 20 years after the novel's publication.

* In the center of the Valley of K is the Dull Lake, which is said in the novel's appendix to be named after the Dal Lake in Kashmir.