* Penguin Island, a 1908 French satirical novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Anatole France, narrates the fictional history of a Great Auk population that is mistakenly baptized by a nearsighted missionary.

In the novel, the son narrates the story as an adult, becoming a priest, while in the film, he narrates while still a young boy.

* The Course of Honour ( 1998 ), the first novel by Lindsey Davis ( later author of the Marcus Didius Falco mysteries ) narrates the history of Vespasian's imperial freedwoman mistress Antonia Caenis.

His present seems disconnected from the past that he narrates throughout the rest of the novel.

In perhaps the most famous chapter in the novel, " The Grand Inquisitor ", Ivan narrates to Alyosha his imagined poem that describes a leader from the Spanish Inquisition and his encounter with Jesus, Who has made His return to earth.

* Joseph Severn / John KeatsThe second of two " cybrid " reincarnations of the poet, " Severn " updates CEO Gladstone on the fates of the Hyperion pilgrims and effectively narrates the novel through his vivid dreams.

* Also Dutch writer J. Bernlef's novel De witte stad ( The White City ) narrates about the fictional lives of many Dreamland inhabitants.

Published in 1916, ( although back-dated to 1915 ), this epic historical novel narrates upheaval and revolution in 18th-century China, and was favorably received by critics, who praised its detailed and exotic depictions of China.

Set in England immediately after the Second World War, the novel narrates the story of Edward Allison, an English soldier who had been badly wounded during the war.

The novel functions on two levels, one in which the characters ' thoughts about the nature of the struggle for independence are explored, and another that narrates the " action and incidents " experienced by the nationalist fighters.

The novel he considered his best, Enigma Otiliei, narrates an unhappy love story ; Cartea nunţii is a disquisition on marriage ; and Bietul Ioanide and Scrinul negru present the problems of intellectuals, all against the backdrop of interwar and immediate postwar Romania.

The Miller narrates one part of the novel and provides songs to the boys, who then relate them to Four-Eyes.

The controversial film is based on the novel by Virginie which narrates the encounter between Nadine ( Karen ) and Manu ( Raffaëla ) and her subsequent flight, transformed into a vengeance against society and the male gender.

She narrates the novel from Heaven, wittnessing the events on earth and experiencing hopes and longings for the things she no longer can do.

The child killer – identified only as " Chappy " – who narrates most of the novel, has been in prison for 23 years.

A character named Dilios appears in and partly narrates Frank Miller's 1998 graphic novel 300, which retells the events of the Battle of Thermopylae.

Boq narrates a whole section of the book in the Shiz University section of the novel.

With this novel, originally published serially in a Yiddish newspaper, Abramovitsh introduced his alter ego, the character of Mendele Moykher Sforim (" Mendel the Book Peddler "), the character who narrates this and many succeeding stories.

Flashbacks were first employed during the sound era in Rouben Mamoulian's 1931 film City Streets, but were rare until about 1939 when, in William Wyler's Wuthering Heights as in Emily Brontë's original novel, the housekeeper Ellen narrates the main story to overnight visitor Mr. Lockwood, who has witnessed Heathcliff's frantic pursuit of what is apparently a ghost.

It centers on rock star Bucky Wunderlick, who also narrates the novel.

Robert Musil wrote the well-known novel The Man without Qualities, Stefan Zweig published a multitude of essays, stories and novels, Karl Kraus edited the magazine Die Fackel ( The Torch ), for which he wrote almost all articles by himself, Franz Werfel wrote some of his best novels, e. g. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh which narrates the Armenian tragedy of 1915, and after Franz Kafka's death, his life-time friend Max Brod began to publish Kafka's unfinished novels.

The first part of the novel, The Fabulous Idiot, narrates the birth of the gestalt.

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.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

In Baxter's novel, Aurelianus is a minor character who interacts with the book's main Roman-era protagonist, Regina, founder of an ( literally ) underground matriarchal society.

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

The inn that inspired the novel, Jamaica Inn, has stood beside the main road through the village since 1547.

* 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.

Diana Soren, the main character in Carlos Fuentes ' novel Diana o la cazadora soltera ( Diana, or The Lone Huntress ), is described as having the same personality as the goddess.

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 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 ).

Appeared in the 1848, Anne Brontë's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is framed as a retrospective letter from one of the main heroes to his friend and brother-in-law with the diary of the eponymous tenant inside it.

* Haki Stërmilli's novel If I Were a Boy ( 1936 ) is written in the form of diary entries which documents the life of the main protagonist.

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

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's novel set in a totalitarian London, main character Winston Smith initially dislikes Julia, the woman he comes to love, because of " the atmosphere of hockey-fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness which she managed to carry about with her.

Their main purpose in the novel is to show the reader the contrast between the firemen who do as they're told without question and someone like Montag, who formerly took pride in his job, but now realizes how damaging it is to society.

* 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 ).

* In his novel Ulysses, James Joyce mentions the bird while the novel's main character is drifting into sleep.

He appears as a main character in A Cloudy Day on the West Side, a novel by Egyptian writer Muhammad Al-Mansi Qindeel.

In Margaret Peterson Haddix's novel Double Identity, the main character discovers that she is a clone of her deceased older sister.

* Hyperion, a sculpture created by Angela Laich after the main character of the Friedrich Hölderlin novel

In Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot, the idiocy of the main character, Prince Lev Nikolaievich Myshkin, is attributed more to his honesty, trustfulness, kindness, and humility, than to a lack of intellectual ability.

Other critics assert that the novel creates a realistic and vibrant story, idealizing neither the past nor its main character.

* Joshua is a main protagonist in Matthew Woodring Stover's novel Jericho Moon.

* Judah Ben-Hur, main character of the 1880 Lew Wallace novel, " Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ".

Malinalli is the main character in a historical novel by Helen Heightsman Gordon, " Malinalli of the Fifth Sun: The Slave Girl Who Changed the Fate of Mexico and Spain.