Severin also provides evidence in his book that another publicised case of a real-life marooned Miskito Central American man named only as Will may have caught Defoe's attention, inspiring the depiction of Man Friday in his novel.

The 1982 novel Friday, a more conventional adventure story ( borrowing a character and backstory from the earlier short story Gulf, also containing suggestions of connection to The Puppet Masters ) continued a Heinlein theme of expecting what he saw as the continued disintegration of Earth's society, to the point where the title character is strongly encouraged to seek a new life off-planet.

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* One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth, in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.

The connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and in John J. Robinson's 1989 work Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry.

( Heinlein's 1957 novel The Door into Summer similarly envisaged the development of CAD systems, and his 1982 novel Friday portrayed something very like the modern Internet, and perhaps most specifically the modern websites Wikipedia and YouTube.

In this novel Crusoe is depicted as a much less motivated man and Friday as a mute.

American novelist Thomas Berger created a modern version of the story in his 1994 novel Robert Crews, in which the protagonist is a middle-aged alcoholic who survives a plane crash at a rural lake, and eventually encounters his " Friday ," a young woman fleeing an abusive marriage.

Friday is a 1982 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein.

The novel is set in a complex, Balkanized world, and Friday is caught up in several civil disturbances during the course of her travels.

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There are various examples of remakes which are most associated with the reimagine or renovate terms, and these include Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, Nora Ephron's Bewitched, Marcus Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Samuel Bayer's A Nightmare on Elm Street, Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, David Eick's Bionic Woman, Nelson McCormick's Prom Night, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, and Kenneth Johnson V. Tim Burton has denied that his 2010 film Alice in Wonderland is a renovation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel ; however, the plot line of the film bears very little resemblance to the original or derivatives of it, such as the classic 1951 animated film from Walt Disney.

In Pat Conroy's novel The Prince of Tides, Savannah Wingo writes a poem which celebrates the " shy Oberammergau of the itinerant barber ;" her praise for her grandfather's tradition of walking around town carrying a 90 pound cross every Good Friday.

In 2005, Kemp appeared in an episode of BBC's Extras and in a two-part adaptation of the Gerald Seymour novel A Line In The Sand for ITV, and he has also presented, on The Friday Night Project and as a stand in host on The Paul O ' Grady Show ( 2007 ; 2008 ).

Freaky Friday is a classic comedic children's novel written by Mary Rodgers first published in the United States in 1972, and adapted for film several times.

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* Friday, a novel by Robert A. Heinlein, probably happens in the 23rd century.

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Robert A. Heinlein's novel Friday makes use of the expression in Heinlein's usual irreverent manner.

" None of his characters are " player characters " from these Friday Nighter sessions, save two, Praji and Vaja, introduced in the novel The King's Buccaneer, characters created for Feist's campaign, by his college friend, Richard Spahl.

Friday is one of the main characters of Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

Victor Lundin played the rescued companion of Crusoe figure Commander Christopher Draper ( Paul Mantee ), who dubs him " Friday " in reference to the novel.

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late is a mystery novel written by Harry Kemelman in 1964, the first of the successful Rabbi Small series.

One looked forward to Mr. Remarque's ninth book if only because not even a reasonably good novel has yet been written grounded on automobile racing, as dramatic a sport as mankind has devised.

According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu d ' esprit written in just three weeks.

A special introduction written by Milne is included in some editions of Grahame's novel.

At the end of the novel, Grand says he is much happier ; he has written to Jeanne and made a fresh start on his book.

The novel was not published until shortly after Christie's death in 1976, some thirty-six years after it was originally written.

A novel called Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, based on Avicenna's story, was later written by Ibn Tufail ( Abubacer ) in the 12th century and translated into Latin and English as Philosophus Autodidactus in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively.

Aphrodite figures as a secondary character in the Tale of Eros and Psyche, which first appeared as a digressive story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius ' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century AD.

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

* The Abduction ( novel ), 1987, also called Bortførelsen, written in Norwegian by Mette Newth, translated into English by Steven T. Murray and Tiina Nunnally

* In the 1976 science fiction novel Children of Dune, written by Frank Herbert, Agamemnon is mentioned as an ancestor of the Atreides family.

* From Father to Son ( Liverpool, 1881, a dramatised version of his novel Fallen among Thieves written in 3 acts in cooperation with J. Palgrave Simpson ).

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

Additionally, in the alternate history novel Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove, Boudicca is the subject of a play written by William Shakespeare to incite the people of Britain to revolt against Spanish conquerors.

The story was written for the screen and then as a novel by Randall Wallace.

Originally written as a novel series by Wang Du Lu starting in the late 1930s, the film is adapted from the storyline of the fourth book in the series, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

By 14 he had already written a short adventure novel called The Black Diamonds which was lost for years until published in 2002.

Another juvenile novel was written in his teenaged years — The Sword of Zagan ( unpublished until 2004 ).

* Crank ( novel ), a 2004 book written by Ellen Hopkins

* The novel Carmilla: The Return, written in 1999 by Kyle Marffin, begins in 19th century Austria but follows Carmilla's life into 1990s Michigan.

In The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden, written in 1968, David Noble argued that the Adam figure had been " the central myth in the American novel since 1830 ".

The Danish crime story The Rector of Veilbye by Steen Steensen Blicher was written in 1829, and the Norwegian crime novel Mordet på Maskinbygger Rolfsen (" The Murder of Engine Maker Rolfsen ") by Maurits Hansen was published in 1839.

T. S. Eliot called Collins's novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ) " the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels ... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe ", and Dorothy L. Sayers called it " probably the very finest detective story ever written ".

Although The Moonstone is usually seen as the first detective novel, a number of critics suggest that the lesser known Notting Hill Mystery ( 1862 – 63 ), written by the pseudonymous " Charles Felix ", preceded it by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre.

It is also considered by many to be the first novel written in English.