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!

The line " There's this to say for blood and breath ,/ they give a man a taste for death " supplies the title for Peter O ' Donnell's 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for P. D. James ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh series.

Mather also took inspiration from Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, a philosophical novel by Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail ( whom he refers to as " Abubekar "), a 12th-century Islamic philosopher.

One of his ancestors is John Elwes, who is believed to be the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ) ( Elwes played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel ).

She is assumed to have been the inspiration for his novel about a nun, La Religieuse, in which he depicts a woman who is forced to enter a monastery where she suffers at the hands of the other nuns in the community.

Saga's grandson, Minamoto no Tōru, is thought to be an inspiration for the protagonist of the novel The Tale of Genji.

Coppola credited his inspiration for making the film to a suggestion from middle school students who had read the novel.

Introduced fauna by humans include rats and goats, which castaway Alexander Selkirk survived on during his four year stay from 1705 to 1709 ; his travails provided the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

The author Lucy Maud Montgomery drew inspiration from the land during the late Victorian Era for the setting of her classic novel Anne of Green Gables ( 1908 ).

In the English-speaking world, Vlad is best known for the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for serving as the primary inspiration for the vampire main character in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.

He was acclaimed as the inventor of the genre of the modern historical novel and the inspiration for enormous numbers of imitators and genre writers both in Britain and on the European continent.

Smuggling is a common trope or theme in literature and can be found in a wide range of works – from the 18th century novels of Charlotte Turner Smith to Prosper Mérimée's 19th century novella, Carmen ( the inspiration for numerous films as well as Bizet's opera, Carmen ) to the James Bond novel ( and later film ) Diamonds are Forever.

Romero drew inspiration from Richard Matheson's I Am Legend ( 1954 ), a horror / science fiction novel about a plague that ravages a futuristic Los Angeles.

The incident was used as inspiration by Joseph Conrad in his novel The Secret Agent.

The novel was also the inspiration behind the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead.

* Corvallis was the inspiration for " Cascadia " in the Bernard Malamud novel, A New Life

The show, and the catch phrase used Gascoigne ( and later Paxman ) before each toss-up question, " Your starter for 10 ," was the inspiration for the novel Starter for 10, and the subsequent film.

In a modern context it can be seen as presenting an early example of animal rights concerns, especially in Gulliver's account of how horses are cruelly treated in his society and the reversal of roles, and a possible inspiration for Pierre Boulle's novel Planet of the Apes.

It appears that Shelley found inspiration for the title of her novel in Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville's Le Dernier Homme ( 1805 ), translated into English in 1806 as Omegarus and Syderia.

The 1948 Mann Act prosecution of Frank LaSalle for abducting Florence Sally Horner is believed to have been an inspiration for Vladimir Nabokov in writing his novel Lolita, whose protagonist Humbert Humbert seeks to escape watchful eyes and bind 13-year-old Dolores Haze more closely to him by taking the girl on a multistate road trip.

* Montez was allegedly the inspiration for Jennifer Wilde's historical romance novel Dare To Love ( 1978 ), whose protagonist Elena Lopez is also a British woman passing herself off as Spanish who becomes an exotic dancer.

* Montez is also the inspiration for Lola Montero in Edison Marshall's novel Infinite Woman.

While this cannot be considered as the inspiration for Les Misérables ( Hugo had started the novel years previously ), the note in his diary makes clear that the scene impressed him.

One such town, Zhongdian, has now officially renamed itself Shangri La ( Chinese: Xianggelila ) because of its claim to be the inspiration for the novel.

He began writing what would become his second novel in 1893, using various contemporary and written accounts ( such as those published previously by Century Magazine ) as inspiration.

Crane found inspiration for his next novel while spending hours lounging in a friend's studio in the early summer of 1893.