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

The novel follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels, that he decides to set out to revive chivalry under the name of Don Quixote.

In the screenplay by Anthony Hinds, the main character's name was changed from Doctor Syn to Parson Blyss to avoid rights problems with Disney's upcoming film version, and Captain Cleggs screenplay follows the novel Doctor Syn and the screenplay of the 1937 film closely with the exception of a tightening of the plot.

The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.

* The historical novel " Farewell Great King " by Jill Paton Walsh follows the life, until death, of Themistocles.

* The historical novel " A victor of Salamis ; a tale of the days of Xerxes, Leonidas and Themistocles " by William Stearns Davis follows the life, until death, of Themistocles.

The Piers Anthony novel Killobyte follows the story of a paralyzed cop trapped in a virtual reality game by a hacker, whom he must stop to save a fellow trapped player slowly succumbing to insulin shock.

* Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho follows the day-to-day life of Wall Street investment banker and serial killer Patrick Bateman.

The story of their meeting closely follows chapter 18 of the novel, in which the two lovers living in the garret are not Rodolphe and Mimì at all, but rather Jacques and Francine.

In his 1969 novel Knight in Anarchy Shipway describes the life of Humphrey de Visdelou as he follows Geoffrey de Mandeville to his doom.

Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath.

Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon.

These experiences form the basis of the novel The Unknown Shore by Patrick O ' Brian, which closely follows Byron's own account.

Philippa Gregory's 2009 novel The White Queen follows a fictionalized account of Elizabeth's life from meeting her future husband, King Edward, up through the disappearance of her sons and the reign of her brother-in-law, Richard III.

The novel is told in first person by Anne herself and follows the events firsthand from the time she first met Richard at her family's estate in Middleham to the time her son is born in 1472.

The stanza of which it is a part, quoted by a character in the novel, is as follows:

The novel follows Captain John Yossarian, a U. S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier.

* Alan Dean Foster's 1983 novel The Man Who Used the Universe follows the machinations of a similarly obsessive and morally neutral man ; however his ultimate goal is not immediately apparent.

The novel follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters.

Damien Broderick's novel Transmitters follows a small group of Australian science fiction fans through their lives over several decades.

The plot of the movie basically follows Hugo's novel, but there are a large number of differences.

Without explanations, the novel follows him as he searches a place to stay for the night and is turned away.

* The Long Walk-a novel by Stephen King published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1979 as a paperback original-revolves around the contestants of a gruelling walking contest along a route that roughly follows and extends beyond the Boston Post Road.

The film loosely follows the novel ’ s plot, emphasizing the human relationships instead of Lem ’ s astrobiology theories — especially Kelvin ’ s Earth life, before his space travel to the planet.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.

His first discussions of animism appear in his two 1994 books: his novel, The Story of B, and his autobiography, Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest.

* Kurtis Scaletta's 2009 children's novel, Mudville is about a town where it's been raining for 22 years, delaying a baseball game between two rival towns.

Two decades later, Herbert's son Brian Herbert, along with Kevin J. Anderson, published two sequels – Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ) – based on notes left behind by Frank Herbert for what he referred to as Dune 7, his own planned seventh novel in the Dune series.

Two decades after Frank Herbert's death, his son Brian Herbert, along with Kevin J. Anderson, published two sequels – Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ) – based on notes left behind by Frank Herbert for what he referred to as Dune 7, his own planned seventh novel in the Dune series.

* 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.

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 ").

Although the two parts are now normally published as a single work, Don Quixote, Part Two was a sequel published ten years after the original novel.

The experimenters then present the subject rat with a decision between two food options ; the food previously eaten by the demonstrator, and a novel food.

In 1847, Emily published her novel, Wuthering Heights, as two volumes of a three-volume set ( the last volume being Agnes Grey by her sister Anne ).

There are two theories on the genesis of the epistolary novel.

In Honoré de Balzac's novel Letters of Two Brides, two women who became friends during their education at a convent correspond over a 17 year period, exchanging letters describing their lives.

* Fyodor Dostoevsky used the epistolary format for his first novel, Poor Folk ( 1846 ), as a series of letters between two friends, struggling to cope with their impoverished circumstances and life in pre-revolution Russia.

He used this rather disparaging term in his 1830 novel Paul Clifford: He is certainly a man who bathes and ‘ lives cleanly ’, ( two especial charges preferred against him by Messrs. the Great Unwashed ).

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.

Kon Ichikawa directed two anti-war dramas: The Burmese Harp ( 1956 ), which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, and Fires On The Plain ( 1959 ), along with Enjo ( 1958 ), which was adapted from Yukio Mishima's novel Temple Of The Golden Pavilion.

* 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.

He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm ( 1945 ), which together have sold more copies than any two books by any other 20th-century author.

In 1939, Nagib Mahfuz wrote the novel Khufu's Wisdom, which leans on the stories of Papyrus Westcar ; In 1997, French author Guy Brachet composed the novel series Le roman des pyramides, including five volumes, of which the first two ( Le temple soleil and Rêve de pierre ) are picking out Khufu and his tomb as a theme.

It is said to have at least two moons, one being the copper-coloured Pazithi Gallifreya ( first named in Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible ); the novel Lungbarrow also places Karn ( setting of The Brain of Morbius, 1976 ) in Gallifrey's solar system, along with a frozen gas giant named Polarfrey and an " astrological figure " of " Kasterborous the Fibster ".

Her last novel was Daniel Deronda, published in 1876, whereafter she and Lewes moved to Witley, Surrey ; but by this time Lewes's health was failing and he died two years later on 30 November 1878.

The Innocents ( Jack Clayton, 1961 ) based on the Henry James novel The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting ( Robert Wise, 1963 ) are two such horror-of-the-demonic films from the early 1960s, both made in the UK by American studios.