He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.

Lubell offers his book as an explanation of why there was no clue.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

Victor's book on John Lloyd Stephens was largely written in my study in the house at Weston.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

As explained by Pocket Books editor Margaret Clark, it was decided to scale back the number of books published not due to low sales or lack of interest in the prequel series, but due to the fact that the televised series often conflicted with planned literary plotlines, or beat the book series to the punch entirely.

In the official comic book prequel to the movie Star Trek, Worf is a General in the Klingon Empire who is dispatched to deal with Romulan Captain Nero and his significantly altered mining vessel, the Narada.

During the events of the comic book mini-series Star Trek: Countdown ( which serves as the canonical prequel to the 2009 Star Trek film ), Geordi ( now a commander ) is reunited with Data and Picard during an effort to stop a massive supernova that threatens all of existence.

Prophet's Power, numbered as the second book in the series, is actually a prequel to the first, Hard Crash ; thus it is harder for readers to understand what happened in the story.

There is also a prequel novel and a companion book available.

In the comic book mini-series Star Trek: Countdown ( the official prequel to the reboot Star Trek film ) Data, having successfully transferred his positronic pathways and memories into B-4, now commands the Enterprise-E in its mission to stop the Romulan Nero.

* Tisiphone appears in Path of the Fury, a 1992 military science fiction book by David Weber ( reissued with a prequel backstory in 2006 as In Fury Born ).

Despite the popularity of his book, both it and his prequel book on the life of Pantagruel's father Gargantua were condemned by the academics at the Sorbonne for their unorthodox ideas and by the Roman Catholic Church for their derision of certain religious practices.

This book also forms a prequel to The Antipope, and brings the series full circle.

A number of scenes from the film were recreated in Friday the 13th: Pamela's Tale, a two-issue comic book prequel released by WildStorm in 2007.

The only exceptions to this rule occur in the comic strip origin story, " In the Beginning ", the 1996 short story collection Cobra Trap, the final Modesty Blaise book, which contains five stories that take place where Modesty's age moves from 20 to 52 ( approximately ), and the 2003 film My Name Is Modesty which is a prequel depicting Modesty in her late teens.

Her name Jadis appears in one proclamation in this book, and Lewis's later prequel The Magician's Nephew tells of her origin and how she came to the Narnian world.

In the third book ( a prequel, set in the time before Eon ), Legacy, soldier Olmy ap Sennon is sent to spy on a group of dissidents who have used the spacetime tunnel of " the Way " ( introduced in Eon ) to colonize the alien world of Lamarckia, a planet with an ecosystem that learns from its changed environment in a way that resembles Lamarckian evolution.

Comic book publisher IDW Publishing released a prequel, Star Trek Alien Spotlight: Romulans and a sequel Star Trek Romulans: The Hollow Crown.

The opening book of series two, Conspiracy of Silence, is the first time any Space: 1889 product has been set entirely on Earth ( featuring characters from Frank Chadwick's forthcoming prequel novel The Forever Engine ).

* John Byrne's 2112, a comic book series prequel / sequel to John Byrne's Next Men

A four-issue comic book prequel to the film was published as a miniseries by DC Comics.

Charn is a fictional city appearing in the 1955 book The Magician's Nephew, book six in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, written as a prequel to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

In the comic book Star Trek: Countdown, which serves as the canonical prequel to the events of the 2009 Star Trek which took place in an alternate universe created by Nero's actions, the Enterprise, now under the command of Captain Data, confronts Nero's ship, the Narada.

David makes a reappearance in the 2008 comic book series, The Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs, which serves as a sequel to the first film and prequel to Lost Boys: The Tribe, and explains that the antlers missed David's heart.

As Margaret Weis describes in the foreword of her prequel book, The Soulforge, Terry Phillips is the man responsible for much of Raistlin's sarcastic and caustic character, taking it to depths that neither she nor Hickman had ever imagined.

Though it is the last book written in the series it acts as a prequel for the first novel.

It is the second book in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy, which takes place before the events of Frank Herbert's celebrated 1965 novel Dune.

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.

His main book on social reform is Toward Social Renewal.

* Specifically, a text added to the end of a book or an article, containing information that is important to, but is not the main idea of, the main text

Yahweh, as the main character in the book, takes the initiative in conquering the land, and it is Yahweh's power that wins battles ( for example, the walls of Jericho fall because Yahweh is fighting for Israel, not because the Israelites show superior fighting ability ).

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

The main themes of the book are introduced in the opening poem ( the " Song of Hannah "): ( 1 ), the sovereignty of Yahweh, God of Israel ; ( 2 ), the reversal of human fortunes ; and ( 3 ), kingship.

Goswell argues that while Naomi is the central character of the book, Ruth is the main character, and so the book " can be considered aptly named.

In Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), Adam of Bremen mentions Birka many times, and the book is the main source of information on the city.

That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.

However it was only in 1927 that the shakta theory of seven main chakras, that has become most popular in the West, was introduced, largely through the translation of two Indian texts: the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, and the Padaka-Pancaka, by Sir John Woodroffe, alias Arthur Avalon, in a book titled The Serpent Power.

He wrote one Uncle Scrooge story, three Donald Duck stories and from 1970-1974 was the main writer for the Junior Woodchucks comic book ( issues 6 through 25 ).

Piron is the author of a book in French, Le bonheur clés en main ( The Keys to Happiness ), which distinguishes among pleasure, happiness and joy.

He invented the Labyrinth, the main setting of the book, and has a pet Hell Hound called Mrs. O ' Leery.

The book is narrated by an unnamed first-person narrator who claims to have known and served with the main character.

The main speaker in the book, identified by the name or title Qoheleth ( usually translated as " teacher " or " preacher "), introduces himself as " son of David, king in Jerusalem.

These scholars argue that the book does not attempt to claim that Qoheleth / Solomon wrote the book, but rather to use Qoheleth / Solomon as the main character in a book of wisdom literature.

* The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova purports to be a book by the main character, and further contains a number of other letters, books, and maps relating to Dracula and the main character's friends and family.

Rosenberg claimed that the book was based upon a manuscript that he found in the main library in Metz.