The novel begins with the droogs sitting in their favorite hangout ( the Korova Milkbar ), drinking milk-drug cocktails, called " milk-plus ", to hype themselves for the night's mayhem.

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

* 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses ; this date is now traditionally called " Bloomsday ".

The second movement of the novel begins when the characters are offered jobs in Silicon Valley working on a project for Michael, who has by then left Redmond.

She begins the story as a closed-off person, but as the novel unfolds her character begins to be more open and understanding.

For instance, the scene of Ekaterin's questioning with fast-penta begins from her viewpoint, but as the drug takes hold ( and the novel begins a new chapter ) it continues from Miles's viewpoint.

Up to the point where the novel begins, New York City-based Perky Pat ( or P. P.

The novel begins with Deckard feeling alienated from his bed-ridden wife, Iran, who misuses her mood organ device, intended to keep the population in even temper, by dialing the depression setting daily.

The novel begins 3, 081 years after the events of the first book, by which time the works of The Hive Queen and The Hegemon have caused the human race to let go of its hatred of the Buggers and instead revile Ender as " The Xenocide ", who exterminated an entire species.

The novel begins on a beautiful summer day with Lord Henry Wotton, a strongly-opinionated man, observing the sensitive artist Basil Hallward painting the portrait of a handsome young man named Dorian Gray, who is Basil's ultimate muse.

Originally the conch is portrayed as being very vibrant and colourful, but as the novel progresses, its colours begin to fade, the same way society begins to fade on the island.

* Publication begins of Futabatei Shimei's Ukigumo, the first modern novel in Japan.

She sometimes makes the mistake of applying Gothic novels to real life situations ; for example, later in the novel she begins to suspect General Tilney of having murdered his deceased wife.

This novel begins with the death of Big Brother and reflects an intermediate period between 1984 and a more optimistic future characterized with a decline in orthodoxy of the totalitarian system, struggles of the ensuing powers and the near destruction of the Oceania air force by Eurasia.

It is at this point that the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms begins its narrative.

The laboratory is in turmoil as the novel begins.

In the novel Tatooine Ghost, however, she begins to understand what happened to her father to bring him to the dark side.

* Arthur C. Clarke novel Rendezvous with Rama begins with an asteroid striking Italy at 0946 GMT on September 11, 2077-destroying Padua and Verona and sinking Venice.

* Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn ( 2001 ) is described as a " progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable ": the plot of the story deals with a small country which begins to outlaw the use of various letters, and as each letter is outlawed within the story, it is ( for the most part ) no longer used in the text of the novel.

The novel begins with the protagonist, Jason Taverner, a singer, hosting his weekly TV show which has an audience of 30 million viewers.

The novel begins with the founding of the city and the killing of Remus, and ends with the accession of Numa Pompilius.

In the novel Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger, the main character John begins writing a zine called Bananafish after reading other people's zines he found at Tower Records.

The plot of the novel has two distinct movements: the events at Microsoft and in Redmond, Washington, and the movement to Silicon Valley and the " Oop!

The film is based on the 1891 novel and 1896 play ( now lost ) of the same name written by Fergus Redmond and Archibald Clavering Gunter.

The novel tells the story of Eamon Redmond, a judge in the Irish High Court of the late twentieth century Ireland.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

He is among the main characters of the historical novel Agnes of France ( 1980 ) by Greek writer Kostas Kyriazis ( b. 1920 ).

One of the viewpoint characters of Ian Watson's novel Oracle is an eyewitness to her defeat.

Chaplin is also one of the central characters in Glen David Gold's novel Sunnyside, which is set in the World War I period.

* Many of the members of Section 9 in the Ghost in the Shell universe, specifically the main characters Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, are cyborgs dependent on regular maintenance ; there are several manga ( or graphic novel ) and artbooks set in the GitS universe, as well as two feature-length anime films, three television series and three video games.

* The novel is mentioned and referenced by some of the other characters in the 2011 movie The Moth Diaries ; Carmilla also seems to have inspired the main antagonist Ernessa, played by Lily Cole.

The original alignment system ( which grouped all characters and creatures into ' Law ', ' Neutrality ' and ' Chaos ') was derived from the novel Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson.

Moll Flanders and Defoe's final novel Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress ( 1724 ) are examples of the remarkable way in which Defoe seems to inhabit his fictional ( yet " drawn from life ") characters, not least in that they are women.

* Domitia and Domitian ( 2000 ), a historical novel by David Corson based on the works of Brian Jones and Pat Southern, revolving around the titular characters.

The team of screenwriters took the main suspect of the novel, Robert Tisdall, and his unexpected, initially reluctant supporter, Erica Burgoyne, and left out all the other characters, including Tey's Inspector Alan Grant and even the original murderer ( who is not the same character as in the film ).

The novel fleshes out the world that these characters exist in, at times presenting a future even bleaker than the one depicted in the film.

The novel shows the genre's results of changing perspectives: individual points were presented by the individual characters, and the central voice of the author and moral evaluation disappeared ( at least in the first volume ; her further volumes introduced a narrator ).

* The Boy Next Door ( 2002 ) by Meg Cabot is a romantic comedy novel dealt with entirely by emails sent among the characters.

Çelebi is one of main characters in novel Capitan Bathory's Adventures ( Dobrodružství kapitána Báthoryho ) by Slovak writer Juraj Červenák.

* Douglass, his wife, and his mistress, Ottilie Assing, are the main characters in Jewell Parker Rhodes ' Douglass ' Women, a novel ( New York: Atria Books, 2002 ).

Neil Gaiman's acclaimed graphic novel series The Sandman influenced goths with characters like the dark, brooding Dream and his sister Death.

It is the book that S. E. Hinton's runaway teenage characters, " Ponyboy " and " Johnny ", read while hiding from the law in the young adult novel about lost innocence, The Outsiders ( 1967 ).

In the 18th-century novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the characters ' hobby-horses, or particular obsessions, are discussed in detail.

* The John Green novel, The Fault in Our Stars commonly uses the term by the characters to describe themselves as being from Indiana.

The novel was written in contemporary English for a mass audience, in the same way that mainstream Hollywood movies depicting the Second World War commonly depict German characters talking in English.

They recognized names of Jewish children sheltered by them ( who also survived the war ), depicted in the novel as victims of abuse by characters based on them.

* Janus, character in the novel Angels and Demons, see List of Angels & Demons characters

The breakthrough role in Dunst's career came in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice's novel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia, a surrogate daughter to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's characters in the film.

The success of the novel and its serialized nature also allowed many imitators to publish pamphlets concerning the Shandean characters and other Shandean-related material even while the novel was yet unfinished.