Following the success of Jane Eyre, in 1848 Charlotte began work on the manuscript of her second novel, Shirley.

In 1991, Coppola and Warner Bros. began discussing the project and two others involving the life of J. Edgar Hoover and the children's novel The Secret Garden.

In early 1989 Fellini began production on The Voice of the Moon, based on Ermanno Cavazzoni ’ s novel, Il poema dei lunatici ( The Lunatics ’ Poem ).

Next, was his third published novel, The Shining ( 1980 ), which was a sleeper at the box office, with mixed reviews, but eventually began to be considered a classic.

" After his move to Springs, he began painting with his canvases laid out on the studio floor, and he developed what was later called his " drip " technique, turning to synthetic resin-based paints called alkyd enamels, which, at that time, was a novel medium.

In 1956, inspired by Ernest Hemingway's 1935 novel Green Hills of Africa, she began an ambitious film project in Africa drawn from another novel called Schwarze Fracht ( Black Freight ).

It was while living in the countryside, having failed in his attempts to supplement his income as a farmer and struggling with tuberculosis, that Sterne began work on his most famous novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the first volumes of which were published in 1759.

Peake taught part-time at the Central School of Art, began his comic novel Mr Pye, and renewed his interest in theatre.

It also appears in Lost Laysen, the novella Mitchell wrote as a teenager in 1916, and in Mitchell's last known novel, Gone with the Wind, which she began writing in 1926.

The magazine began to take off when, in 1905, the publishers acquired the rights to serialize Ayesha, by H. Rider Haggard, a sequel to his popular novel She.

Heinlein's first novel published as a book, Rocket Ship Galileo, was initially rejected because going to the moon was considered too far out, but he soon found a publisher, Scribner's, that began publishing a Heinlein juvenile once a year for the Christmas season.

Although Heinlein had previously written a few short stories in the fantasy genre, during this period he wrote his first fantasy novel, Glory Road, and in Stranger in a Strange Land and I Will Fear No Evil, he began to mix hard science with fantasy, mysticism, and satire of organized religion.

Of note in recent times is Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson's novel interpretation of Rashi's commentary, which was delivered in a series of public talks that began in 1964 and continued for over 25 years.

The Picture of Dorian Gray began as a short novel submitted to Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

The century began while the translatio imperii of 962 was still somewhat novel and ended in the midst of the Investiture Controversy.

The pair began to write a novel with the premise that " all these nuts are right, and every single conspiracy they complain about really exists ".

However, he soon decided that a direct adaptation would not work well, and began to craft a new story, using only the basic outline of the novel.

On returning to California in 1898, London began working deliberately to get published, a struggle described in his novel, Martin Eden.

Cover of the November 1896 edition of McClure's, which began the serialization of the novel.

Round the episode of the Innominato, historically identified with Bernardino Visconti, the first manuscript of the novel The Betrothed ( in Italian I Promessi sposi ) began to grow into shape, and was completed in September 1823.

Goethe's novel was published in 1774 and not long after young men began to mimic the character Werther by dressing in yellow pants and blue jackets.

DuBose Heyward's wife, Dorothy Heyward, began working on a staged adaptation of her husband's novel soon after it was published in 1925.

Adams also began work on another novel, The Salmon of Doubt with the intention of publishing it as the third book in the series, but died before completing it.

African American actor LeVar Burton published in 1997 a science fiction novel called Aftermath about a future civil war in the United States which began about 2020 and evolved into a race war.

Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

As a result, Suchet will have filmed adaptations of every Poirot novel, and all but one Poirot short story.

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

As philosophers of Voltaire's day contended with the problem of evil, so too does Candide in this short novel, albeit more directly and humorously.

Smith's works consist of: a single novel, originally published in two volumes in edited form as The Planet Buyer, also known as The Boy Who Bought Old Earth ( 1964 ) and The Underpeople ( 1968 ), and later restored to its original form as Norstrilia ( 1975 ); and 32 short stories ( collected in The Rediscovery of Man ( 1993 ), including two versions of the short story " War No. 81-Q ").

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

The most widespread subgenre of the detective novel became the whodunit ( or whodunnit, short for " who done it?

Pitman's short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion, his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures was published by J. Taylor of Paternoster Street, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.

They vary from short story collection to fix-up ( novel created from older short stories ) perhaps all the way to novel.

* Theodore Sturgeon's short novel, Some of Your Blood ( 1961 ), consists of letters and case-notes relating to the psychiatric treatment of a non-supernatural vampire.

Many works have been inspired by the novella, including novel sequels, short films, and a feature film called Flatland.

In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades.

Contemporary American writers in this tradition include Joyce Carol Oates, in such novels as Bellefleur and A Bloodsmoor Romance and short story collections such as Night-Side ( Skarda 1986b ) and Raymond Kennedy in his novel Lulu Incognito.

Awards are offered in the following genres: drama / screenplay, essay, the novel, short fiction, Nonfiction, and poetry.

* 1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.

Up the Walls of the World published in 1978 was her first full length novel, up until then she worked and built a reputation only in the field of short stories.

* Kappa, a short novel by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

In 1837 he completed a short novel, Scorpion and Felix, a drama, Oulanem, and some poems, none of which was published.

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

He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works ( 55 novels in total, plus four " lost " novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings ), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.

The whimsical Svetz series consists of a collection of short stories, The Flight of the Horse, and a novel, Rainbow Mars, which involve a nominal time machine sent back to retrieve long-extinct animals, but which travels, in fact, into alternate realities and brings back mythical creatures such as a Roc and a Unicorn.