Like the historical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events.

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.

The Newcomes was published serially over about two years, as Thackeray himself says in one of the novel's final chapters.

Richardson picked up on two areas relating to the characters of the book, saying that Goldfinger " is the most preposterous specimen yet displayed in Mr. Fleming's museum of super fiends ", whilst, referring to the novel's central character, observed that " the real trouble with Bond, from a literary point of view, is that he is becoming more and more synthetic and zombie-ish.

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.

Created from two short stories, " Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street " and the unfinished " The Prime Minister ", the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess.

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 two novels represent parallel universes relative to one another, and most of the characters present in one novel's world also exist in the other novel's reality, albeit in different circumstances.

It also featured two key topics of the paper's historical focus: First, an analysis by Yale University professor David Bromwich of the vice presidency of Dick Cheney ; and second, British author Zadie Smith's essay that " dismantles the status quo in the form of a review of two new novels – Netherland and Remainder – that she holds up as representing where the novel's been and where it's going ".

Reuven again finds himself a buffer between father and son when, in the novel's climax, the two friends learn Reb Saunders's purpose for raising his son in silence: Reb Saunders had discovered early on that his son's dawning intelligence was far outstripping his sense of compassion for others.

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.

The title itself comes from a quote by Winston Churchill, serving as the first of the novel's two epigraphs:

The two novels represent parallel universes relative to one another, and most of the characters present in one novel's world also exist in the other novel's reality, albeit in different circumstances.

In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon, the novel's two protagonists attend a Brooklyn Dodgers football game at Ebbets Field.

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 ).

They give three reasons for this: Maj. Major " always followed the rules, yet no-one liked him or trusted him "; his swift promotion to the rank of Major where he then remains is " a clear foreshadowing of the Peter Principle "; and the anathema to Maj. Major of being identified with Fonda, a symbol of competence, causes Maj. Major to retreat from everyone around him, making efforts to hide and to become, in the novel's words, a recluse "&# 91 ; i &# 93 ; n the midst of a few foreign acres teeming with more than two hundred people ".

A cryptanalyst working for the DIA, Fairfax was responsible for foiling two plans in the novel's events, involving a vaccine against a highly-lethal biological weapon known as the Sinovirus.

Then, in the novel's most controversial sequence, she opens her dress and offers her breast to Lecter ; he accepts her offer and the two became lovers.

The story is written from two viewpoints, equidistant from the novel's publication in 1980.

Conrad used these two men in his " portrayal of the novel's anarchists ".

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.

Perhaps one of the novel's greatest strengths is that it contains hundreds of references to the popular and educated culture of the time and thus gives a better idea than most contemporary novels of what it was like to live in England then — almost a miniature education in Victorian life.

Quentin, the most intelligent and tormented of the Compson children, gives the novel's best example of Faulkner's narrative technique.

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

The most obvious changes involved the names of the novel's characters:

* As a result of the novel's popularity, the name " Manderley " became extremely popular as a name for ordinary houses, and at one time was the most common house name in the UK.

* L ' Innominato ( literally: the Unnamed ) is probably the novel's most complex character, a powerful and feared criminal who is torn between his ferocious past and the increasing disgust that he feels for his life.

The sport of wrestling features prominently — the novel's title refers to the 158-pound weight class, which Severin Winter considers the most elite competitive weight — and a subplot eventually emerges involving Winter's protégé, a peculiar wrestling prodigy from Iowa who transfers to Winter's college because of its superior biology department and becomes a pawn in the fallout of the two couples ' swinging relationship.

In the novel's afterword, Meyer acknowledges the two most obvious influences, Conan Doyle's vast Sherlockian opus and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, which Meyer terms an " absurdist masterpiece ".

The novel's title refers to the character of Nathan Price, a missionary in the 1950s Belgian Congo who creates his own " misprint " by mispronouncing the local expression " Tata Jesus is bängala ", meaning " Jesus is most precious ".

The novel's title has also come to stand for women's writing generally in some senses, as one of the most famous works by a woman author very directly treating gender.

" It could conversely be argued that it is one of the most potent evocations of one of the novel's central themes, the relation of personal experience of time to one's sense of being in and of the world.

For most of the episode, the plot stays relatively faithful to the novel's basic story.

The most referenced characteristic of the novel's plot is its unusual subtlety and realism for its genres.

* Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West takes the familiar Oz story and inverts it, with the Wicked Witch ( given the name Elphaba in homage to L. Frank Baum ) as the novel's protagonist and Dorothy as a hapless child.

Twenty years prior to the novel's events, twelve year-old Adam and his two best friends failed to come home after playing in the familiar woods bordering their Irish housing estate.

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.

P. Schuyler Miller, noting that the novel's " climactic situations seem to be telegraphed ", suggested that Heinlein presented his background situations so effectively that readers solve the story's mysteries more quickly than Heinlein allowed his characters to.

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.

* Paul Levinson's The Plot to Save Socrates starts in 2042, from which the novel's time traveling characters embark on what the title says.

Harris appears as a vampire in Kim Newman's 1992 novel Anno Dracula, as the mentor and vampire sire of one of the novel's main characters.

The novel's expository narration is interspersed with excerpts from a novel written by one of the main characters ; the novel-within-a-novel itself contains a science fiction story written by one of that novel's characters.

The book, written by Auntie Mame author Patrick Dennis, included photographs by Cris Alexander of Cass, Dody Goodman, Kaye Ballard and others, portraying the novel's characters.

In " The Lightning Keeper ," a 2006 novel by Starling Lawrence ( editor-in-chief of W W Norton ), the town of Beecher's Bridge is based on Norfolk, to which the author's family has longstanding ties, and some of the novel's characters echo actual Norfolkians of the late 19th and early 20th century.

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.

In a final scene, in which almost the entire cast of characters is gathered in the front room of Talboys, reflecting the novel's origin as a work for the stage, the killer turns out to be Crutchley.

The 1973 BBC documentary Omnibus: The British Hero featured Christopher Cazenove playing a number of such title characters ( e. g. Richard Hannay and Bulldog Drummond ), including James Bond in dramatised scenes from Goldfinger – notably featuring the hero being threatened with the novel's circular saw, rather than the film's laser beam – and Diamonds Are Forever.

Both authors used their main characters to address their readers directly ; however, Camus ' narrative was written in the first-person present tense, thus assuming that the reader will join the main character, Clamence, in the novel's imagined sphere of discourse.

This leads to many of the novel's characters asking, " What would Jesus do?

Greater verisimilitude is given by a series of newspaper articles commenting on events and on the novel's characters from a distance.

Forever Free is a proper sequel to The Forever War, continuing the story of that novel's main characters Mandella and Marygay Potter.

Although Conroy drew on his experiences as a cadet at The Citadel, as well as stories from similar military schools during the 1960s to create the setting for the story, he has explicitly stated that the novel's plot and principal characters are a product of his imagination.

* The 2009 song " Peeled Apples " from the Journal for Plague Lovers album by the Welsh band Manic Street Preachers includes the line referencing one of the novel's characters: " a dwarf takes his cockerel out on a cockfight.