Prostitutes were often presented as victims in sentimental literature such as Thomas Hood's poem The Bridge of Sighs, Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton, and Dickens ' novel Oliver Twist.

The film for Leone was to have been a homage to classic writers from literature such as — Edgar Lee Masters ( Spoon River Anthology ), Ambrose Bierce (" An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge "), Mark Twain (" A military campaign that failed "), Stephen Crane ( The red badge of Courage ), and Margaret Mitchell ( Gone with the Wind ), of whose novel he had wanted to film a remake.

He won three Pulitzer Prizes — for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the two plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth — and a U. S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.

Guignol's Band and its companion novel London Bridge center on the London underworld during World War I.

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.

Historic buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in the Florence area include the Edwin E. Benedict House, a deteriorating house on the Siuslaw River that is said to have been Ken Kesey's inspiration for the Stamper House in his novel Sometimes a Great Notion, Heceta Head Lighthouse and Keepers Quarters, Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park Historic District, the Siuslaw River Bridge, and the William Kyle and Sons Building in Old Town.

The film includes a rather novel scene filmed ' on ' the recently completed San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, wherein Nick & Nora Charles ', while driving east-bound on the upper deck ( disallowed when the bridge was ' reconfigured ' in 1962 ) are stopped on the bridge ( for speeding, by a highway patrolman ) while traffic whizzes by, which would be unheard of in recent history.

The island also features in the Ann Bridge novel The Dangerous Islands.

A. J. Cronin's first novel, Hatter's Castle ( 1931 ), includes a scene involving the Tay Bridge Disaster, and the 1942 filmed version of the book recreates the bridge's catastrophic collapse.

Columbia continued to produce 40-plus pictures a year, offering productions that often broke ground and kept audiences coming to theaters such as its adaptation of the controversial James Jones novel, From Here to Eternity ( 1953 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), and The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ) with William Holden and Alec Guinness.

Of interest is the mention of " inevitable traffic jams " on the Strood side of Rochester Bridge, the novel being written some years prior to the construction of the M2 motorway Medway bypass.

A graphic and historically accurate description of the vertical impalement of a Serbian rebel by Ottoman authorities can be found in Ivo Andrić's novel The Bridge on the Drina.

* Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson for Bridge on the River Kwai ( credited to Pierre Boulle who wrote the novel.

* Barry Hughart's fantasy novel, Bridge of Birds, is loosely based upon this story, though the two figures are switched.

The Bridge is a novel by Scottish author Iain Banks.

His previous novel, All Tomorrow's Parties, was published in October 1999 as the conclusion of the Bridge trilogy.

In 2007 Živković's novel " The Bridge " won the " Isidora Sekulić " Award.

The two central sections of Brunel's bridge are novel adaptations of the design Stephenson employed for the High Level Bridge across the River Tyne in Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1849.

* Leslie Burke, one of the protagonists of the Katherine Paterson novel Bridge to Terabithia

It is located near Mokra Gora and Višegrad, best known for Yugoslav Ivo Andrić's Nobel-winning novel, The Bridge on the Drina.

simple: Bridge to Terabithia ( novel )

The series ' initial publisher, Bridge Publications coined the word dekalogy, meaning " a series of ten books ", to describe and promote the novel.

In 1994, scholar Brian Stonehill suggested that Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow " not only curses but precurses what we now glibly dub cyberspace.

This novel was adapted into a TV series, The Six Million Dollar Man, in 1973, and a spin-off, The Bionic Woman in 1976.

* Papillon, 1973 ( based on the novel by Henri Charrière, 1969 )

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, introduced the term to the Western world with the 1973 publication of his novel The Gulag Archipelago.

On October 4, 1973, he published his first work, a manga adaptation of Prosper Merimee's short novel Mateo Falcone, titled A Gun Report.

In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.

The character John Morlar from Peter Van Greenaway's 1973 novel The Medusa Touch and the 1978 film version holds nihilistic beliefs as does the character Animal Mother from Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the ruthless thug O-Dog from the 1993 film Menace II Society by the Hughes Brothers.

In 1973, his novel Seventeen Moments of Spring ( 1968 ) was adapted to television as a twelve-part mini-series about the Soviet spy Maksim Isaev operating in wartime Nazi Germany as Max Otto von Stierlitz, charged with preventing a separate peace between Nazi Germany and America which would exclude the USSR.

Continues the following spring ( 1970 ) Epilogue is titled " February 12, 1973 ") Ryan appears for only a brief time in this novel.

In the novelette Rumfuddle ( 1973 ), Jack Vance presents a novel twist on the ecological utopia.

Her novel The Farthest Shore won the 1973 National Book Award in category Children's Books.

" A more modern work to use this idea was Daniel F. Galouye's novel Simulacron-3, which was made into a German teleplay titled Welt am Draht (" World on a Wire ") in 1973.

* The Unsleeping Eye ( 1973 ), a novel by D. G.

Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.

Now recognized as a major talent, Altman had critical breakthroughs with McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ), known for its gritty portrayal of the American frontier ; The Long Goodbye ( 1973 ), a remake of a Raymond Chandler novel ; Thieves Like Us ( 1974 ), and Nashville ( 1975 ).

Several excellent examples of the Socratic Method are portrayed in the 1973 film The Paper Chase, based on a 1970 novel by John J. Osborn, Jr., also titled The Paper Chase.

His last novel, Theophilus North, was published in 1973, and made into the film Mr. North in 1988.

his first appearance in an original novel wasn't until 1973 in Elric of Melniboné.

* Iris Murdoch published the novel The Black Prince in 1973.

Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973.

The Castle of Crossed Destinies () is a 1973 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino.

She came to international prominence for her roles as Holly Sargis in Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands, and as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie ( based on the first novel by Stephen King ) for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination.

Other major screen roles include the obsessed Nazi Colonel in The Train ( 1964 ), Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Tobias in A Delicate Balance ( 1973 ), Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes ( 1980 ), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show ( 1994 ), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation ( 1996 ) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

The film was adapted by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman from author Forrest Carter's 1973 novel The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales ( republished, as shown in the movie's opening credits, as Gone to Texas ).