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The novel borrows liberally from Heinlein's Future History, although it does not follow its timeline.
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* Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain ( 1997 ) borrows much from the Odyssey to tell the story of an American Civil War veteran's homecoming.
Robert B. Parker's 2001 novel Potshot borrows heavily from the end of the movie for the final confrontation between Spenser's group of seven outlaws and the Dell, the antagonists of the story, going so far as to acknowledge it in dialog between characters and having one of them say the line, " We deal in lead, friend.
The novel also borrows some of its humor ( partially embodied in Ragotin ) from Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote as well as from Menippean satire.
Though the characters have personalities rather different from their real-life counterparts, the novel borrows heavily from actual events, in particular Loving's ambush by Indians, and Goodnight's attentive care as Loving died from an arrow-induced infection.
Poe's novel was also an influence on H. P. Lovecraft, whose 1936 novel At the Mountains of Madness follows similar thematic direction and borrows the cry tekeli-li from the novel.
The film American Beauty borrows several themes from the novel.
The Belgian writer Marnix Gijsen borrows elements of the story in his first novel Het boek van Joachim van Babylon, 1947.
The novel borrows story elements from the opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber.
Gunbuster also borrows many story elements from the Robert A. Heinlein novel Starship Troopers.
Elements of this are visible in the resulting novel, such as the prologue, which borrows the Journal of the Whills title from Lucas ' original synopsis.
Neil Gaiman borrows from the title in an issue of his popular comic series The Sandman, in a story featuring a writer whose novel is titled "... And the Madness of Crowds ".
In reviewing the " disappointing " novel for Commonweal ( September 20, 1968 ), William James Smith chastised Momaday for his mannered style: " writes in a lyric vein that borrows heavily from some of the slacker rhythms of the King James Bible.
The eponymously named ninth chapter, which takes place in Atlantis, though primarily inspired by Plato's dialogue Critias, also borrows such details from C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne's novel The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis ( 1899 ), such as the presence of mammoths, dinosaurs, and a volcanic mountain on the island.
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Hitchcock liberally adapted Joseph Conrad's novel, transforming the highly political Tsarist-era agents provocateurs into foreign agents without any obvious political leanings.
Quarrington himself was so impressed by Whale Music < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s quirky pop — which was perfectly suited to a novel about a quirky, reclusive pop genius liberally based on Brian Wilson — that he chose the band to compose the soundtrack to the film version of his novel.
It is liberally adapted from the Gordon Wellesley novel Report on a Fugitive.
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on the fatal battlefield of Poltava, to quote from the novel, `` the wreath he twined for himself slipped down upon his people ''.
If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??
In our own time we have seen that the novelist's debt to psychoanalysis has increased but that the novel itself has not profited much from this marriage.
she could dust the plants, then break off suddenly and pick up an old novel and read from the middle on ; ;
J. H. Miller's excellent chapter on Great Expectations has lately illustrated how fruitfully that novel can be read from such a perspective.
Nevertheless, there are notably frequent instances of deja vue, in which our recognition of an entirely novel event is a feeling of having lived through it before, a feeling which, though vague, withstands the verbal barrage from the most impressive corps of psychologists.
Here, in the most eagerly awaited novel of the season ( his first since The Catcher In The Rye, ) he tells of a college girl in flight from the life around her and the tart but sympathetic help she gets from her 25-year-old brother.
* 1928 Alibi ( dramatised by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd )
* 2005 And Then There Were None ( dramatised by Kevin Elyot from the novel And Then There Were None )
According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.
Rieux returns to the theme at the end of the novel, after the epidemic is over, when the depth of the feelings of exile and deprivation is clear from the overwhelming joy with which long parted lovers and family members greet each other.
The novel thus appears to be told by an unnamed narrator who gathers information from what he has personally seen and heard regarding the epidemic, as well as from the diary of another character, Tarrou, who makes observations about the events he witnesses.
In the novel, they are represented by Cottard, who welcomes the plague and uses the economic deprivation that results from it to make a fortune buying and selling on the black market.
He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
When she made it, the results, starring Margaret Rutherford, were popular and successful light comedies, but were disappointing to Christie herself ; nevertheless, Agatha Christie dedicated the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side to Rutherford.
This first film was based on the 1957 novel 4: 50 from Paddington ( U. S. title, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!
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 novel covers the entire reign of Alexander III ( 1249 – 1286 ), " almost entirely from Alexander's viewpoint ".
Ambergris is key to the Ian Cameron novel The Lost Ones, from which came the 1974 Disney film, The Island at the Top of the World.
In Alfred Duggan's Conscience of the King, a historical novel about Cerdic, founder of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, Ambrosius Aurelianus is a Romano-British general who rose independently to military power, forming alliances with various British kings and setting out to drive the invading Saxons from Britain.
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In Robert Heinlein's novel Glory Road, the hero, Scar Gordon, reads a book of magic by Albertus Magnus and comments on love magic involving a wolf's burned hair.
* In the timeline of Robert Heinlein's utopian novel For Us, the Living – written in 1939 but only published posthumously in 2003 – LaGuardia is elected President in 1951 and serves two terms as a militant reforming president, effectively nationalizing the banking system and instituting a system of Social Credit.
Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record.
* Nehemiah Scudder, the fictional antagonist in Robert A. Heinlein's short novel If This Goes On —
Though some regarded as a failure as a novel, considering it little more than a disguised lecture on Heinlein's social theories, some readers took a very different view.
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.
The penultimate novel of this period, I Will Fear No Evil, is according to critic James Gifford " almost universally regarded as a literary failure " and he attributes its shortcomings to Heinlein's near-death from peritonitis.
The novel was published as a collaboration, with Heinlein's name above Robinson's on the cover, in 2006.
Heinlein's first novel, For Us, The Living ( written 1939 ), consists largely of speeches advocating the Social Credit system, and the early story " Misfit " ( 1939 ) deals with an organization that seems to be Franklin D. Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps translated into outer space.
Unusual for science fiction at the time, but quite typical of Heinlein's works, the novel portrays several competent and intelligent female characters.
* In Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, computer technician Manuel Davis blames a real bug for a ( non-existent ) failure of supercomputer Mike, presenting a dead fly as evidence.
Heinlein's novel also repeatedly makes explicit the analogy between the mind-controlling parasites and the Communist Russians, echoing the then prevailing Second Red Scare in the United States.
This novel is Heinlein's only foray into the " alien invasion " genre within science fiction.
Heinlein's original version of the novel was 96, 000 words, and was cut to about 60, 000 words for both the 1951 book version and the serialization in Galaxy.
The Brain Eaters, a 1958 film directed by Bruno VeSota, bore a number of similarities to Heinlein's novel.
In the film one of the characters mumbles that Jack Finney's 1955 novel The Body Snatchers is " a blatant rip off " of Heinlein's novel.
Greene had originally submitted a radio script for " Tom Ranger and the Space Cadets " on January 16, 1946, but it remained unperformed when Heinlein's novel was published.
Podkayne appears in Heinlein's later novel The Number of the Beast, attending the party at the end along with many other Heinlein characters from previous books.
Groff Conklin described the novel as " one of Heinlein's most enchanting tales.
His name can be seen as an homage both to Rand's hero and to Robert Heinlein's character Mike in the novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, a self-aware computer network that engineers a revolution in a lunar penal colony using the alias Adam Selene.
* In Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, the Lunar Declaration of Independence is sent to Earth on July 4, 2076 ; much of the book takes place in 2076.
Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale praised the novel, finding it " an excellent example of Heinlein's ability to take one of the oldest plots in any literature.
This theme is echoed elsewhere in Heinlein's works — that real liberty is to be found among the pioneer societies out along the advancing frontier, but the regimentation and legalism that follow bring restraints that chafe true individualists ( an idea emphasized in the first and final page of the novel, and in the later book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls ).
The setting of the novel was revisited by Heinlein in his late-period novel, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, as was the character Hazel Stone, who appeared as a minor character in the Lunar revolution and a central character in Heinlein's earlier book, The Rolling Stones / Space Family Stone ( 1952 ).
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