The novel was not only the presenter of the new, secular, rationalistic, private world of the middle class.

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.

Krim was able to get an advance for a novel, and time and opportunity to write at Yaddo, but it was no good.

He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.

His lordship was concerned in the management of Drury Lane but, if there were no opportunities there, would he read and criticize her novel??

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

Mr. Remarque's conception of this novel was sound and perhaps even noble.

the book was a fine historical novel about Edward 3,, and I did a week of research to get the details just right: the fifteenth-century armor, furnishings, clothes.

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.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu d ' esprit written in just three weeks.

In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).

He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.

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.

The scenes at the end of the novel, when Oran's gates are reopened, recall the jubilant scenes in Paris when the city was liberated in 1944.

Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

The novel was not published until shortly after Christie's death in 1976, some thirty-six years after it was originally written.

This first film was based on the 1957 novel 4: 50 from Paddington ( U. S. title, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!

Several later books were original in Europe, and at least one novel has only ever appeared in Italian, no English version yet published.

La Peste ) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.

Oran and its environs were struck by disease multiple times before Camus published this novel.

In terms of a rudimentary chronology, Poirot speaks of retiring to grow marrows in Chapter 18 of The Big Four ( 1927 ), which places that novel out of published order before Roger Ackroyd.

* Georg Christian Lehms, Des israelitischen Printzens Absolons und seiner Prinzcessin Schwester Thamar Staats-Lebens-und Helden-Geschichte (' The Heroic Life and History of the Israelite Prince Absolom and his Princess Sister Tamar '), novel in German published in Nuremberg, 1710

* 1958 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.

* Ark ( Baxter novel ), a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter ( published 20 Aug. 2009 )

The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.

Throughout his life, Hopwood worked on a novel that he hoped would " expose " the strictures the commercial theater machine imposed on playwrights, but the manuscript was never published.

As a result, British and American operatives intercepted and photographed a manuscript of the novel and secretly printed a small number of books allegedly published by Feltrinelli in the Russian language.

In the novel The Shape of Things to Come, published in 1933, H. G. Wells depicted Basic English as the lingua franca of a new elite which after a prolonged struggle succeeds in uniting the world and establishing a totalitarian world government.

The length of the term can depend on several factors, including the type of work ( e. g. musical composition, novel ), whether the work has been published, and whether the work was created by an individual or a corporation.

* The Cone Gatherers, a novel by the Scottish writer Robin Jenkins, first published in 1955

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

At least one published mystery novel uses aspects of the myth as the centerpoint of the plot.

Charlotte's third published novel, the last to be published during her lifetime, was Villette, which came out in 1853.

Charlotte's first-written novel, The Professor, was published posthumously in 1857.

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.

In 1949 Marker published his first novel, Le Coeur net ( The Forthright Spirit ), which was about aviation.

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 ").

Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

The film Wrong is Right ( 1982 ) starring Sean Connery was loosely based on his novel, The Better Angels.

The word " cyberspace " ( from cybernetics and space ) was coined by science fiction novelist and seminal cyberpunk author William Gibson in his 1982 story " Burning Chrome " and popularized by his 1984 novel Neuromancer.

* Kiklop, a 1965 novel by Ranko Marinković, basis for the 1982 film ( see below )

In the 1982 novel 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke's first sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000 is described by Dr. Chandra as being caught in a " Hofstadter – Möbius loop ".

His later author discoveries included Tanith Lee, Jennifer Roberson, Michael Shea, Ian Wallace, Tad Williams, Celia S. Friedman, and C. J. Cherryh, whose Downbelow Station ( 1982 ) was the first DAW book to win the Hugo Award for best novel.

BBC Radio produced a one-off dramatisation of the novel in 1982 starring Michael Pennington.

Kosiński wrote his novel Pin Ball ( 1982 ) for his friend George Harrison, having conceived of the idea for the book at least ten years before writing it.

Ribbentrop is also a key figure in the historical novel Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley ( Penguin Books 1982, ISBN 0-14-006268-8 ) and Harry Turtledove's alternate history series Worldwar where his Soviet counterpart Molotov frequently expresses contempt for his lack of intelligence.

The first part of this novel was originally published as the novella To Leave a Mark in the November 1982 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

The themes he developed in this early short fiction, the Sprawl setting of " Burning Chrome " ( 1982 ), and the character of Molly Millions from " Johnny Mnemonic " ( 1981 ) laid the foundations for the novel.

After viewing the first 20 minutes of landmark cyberpunk film Blade Runner ( 1982 ), which was released when Gibson had written a third of the novel, he " figured was sunk, done for.

The 1982 novel Friday, a more conventional adventure story ( borrowing a character and backstory from the earlier short story Gulf, also containing suggestions of connection to The Puppet Masters ) continued a Heinlein theme of expecting what he saw as the continued disintegration of Earth's society, to the point where the title character is strongly encouraged to seek a new life off-planet.

* W. P. Kinsella, novelist well known for his 1982 novel Shoeless Joe which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams

The term has also been used in The Judas Mandala, a 1982 science-fiction novel by Damien Broderick, where the context of use is somewhat different from that defined above.

Gibson coined the term " cyberspace " in his short story " Burning Chrome " ( 1982 ) and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer ( 1984 ).

The comics explore religious fundamentalism through the person of William Stryker and his Purifiers, an anti-mutant group that emerged in the 1982 graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills.

In the followup 1982 novel, 2010: Odyssey Two, and the accompanying 1984 film, 2010, it is revealed that this action was caused by the computer having been programmed with two conflicting objectives: to fully disclose all its information, and to keep the true purpose of the flight secret from the crew ; this conflict caused HAL to become paranoid and eventually homicidal.

Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.

In 1982, Eastwood directed and starred alongside his son Kyle in Honkytonk Man, based on the eponymous Clancy Carlile's depression-era novel.

A notable example is the book Filth, where the tapeworm's internal monologue is imposed over the top of the protagonist's own internal monologue ( the worm's host ), visibly depicting the tapeworm's voracious appetite, much like the ' Climax of Voices ' in Gray's novel 1982, Janine.

The story of Anne and Richard is portrayed in the 1982 novel The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman, which presents a sympathetic portrayal of Richard.

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer is a 1982 novel by Philip K. Dick.

The novel was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1982.