Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled " A Gothic Story ".

Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein is subtitled " The Modern Prometheus ", in reference to the novel's themes of the over-reaching of modern man into dangerous areas of knowledge.

Published in 1818, it was based on a number of sources, including Ovid's myth of Prometheus ( indeed, the novel is subtitled " The Modern Prometheus "), Milton's Paradise Lost, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and William Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek.

The novel is subtitled " An Ambiguous Utopia ".

The book was one of the inspirations for filmmaker Tony Richardson's 1965 film The Loved One, which was based on Evelyn Waugh's short satirical 1948 novel of the same name, tellingly subtitled " An Anglo-American Tragedy ".

That novel has been translated into English and was made into a commercially successful French film in 1994 as La Reine Margot ( later as Queen Margot, and subtitled, in English-language markets ), starring Isabelle Adjani.

She won the Stephen Leacock humour prize for her 1978 novel, True Confections, which was subtitled, Or How My Family Arranged My Marriage.

She, subtitled A History of Adventure, is a novel by Henry Rider Haggard, first serialized in The Graphic magazine from October 1886 to January 1887.

The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 1886 ), subtitled " The Life and Death of a Man of Character ", is a tragic novel by British author Thomas Hardy.

A third solo adventure, also by Baron, was announced and promoted first as another miniseries, then as a graphic novel ( now subtitled " Dragons in Eden "), but was left unpublished when NOW folded.

Lanark, subtitled A Life in Four Books, is the first novel of Scottish writer Alasdair Gray.

* String Quartet No. 1 ( Janáček ), subtitled Kreutzer Sonata, a 1923 work by Moravian composer Leoš Janáček inspired by Tolstoy's novel

The first part was subtitled Nobody's Fault, an allusion to one of Dickens ' proposed titles for the original novel, and the story developed from the perspective and experiences of the Arthur Clennam character.

Palomar ( subtitled The Heartbreak Soup Stories ) is the title of a graphic novel written and drawn by Gilbert Hernandez and published in 2003 by Fantagraphics Books ( ISBN 1-56097-539-3 ).

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas ( modern spelling Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas ), often subtitled as the Epitaph of a Small Winner, is a novel by the Brazilian writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.

The novel ( subtitled The Pronek Fantasies ) centers around the character of Jozef Pronek, a Bosnian refugee, who was already the subject of Hemon's novella Blind Jozef Pronek & Dead Souls published in his short story collection The Question of Bruno ( 2000 ).

The novel is subtitled, " A grotesque masterpiece ", and is illustrated with line drawings by David Roberts.

The novel is subtitled: " Helen's Babies with some account of their ways ... innocent, crafty, angelic, impish, witching and repulsive by THEIR LATEST VICTIM.

America Is in the Heart, sometimes subtitled A Personal History, is a 1946 semi-autobiographical novel written by Filipino American immigrant poet, fiction writer, short story teller, and activist, Carlos Bulosan.

He is best known for his novel Vanity Fair ( 1848 ), subtitled A Novel without a Hero, which is an example of a form popular in Victorian literature: an historical novel in which recent history is depicted.

The full, subtitled title of the novel is The Shadow-Line, A Confession, which immediately alerts the reader to the retrospective nature of the novella.

Роман с кокаином-Roman s kokainom ), is a mysterious Russian novel first published in 1934 in a Parisian émigré publication, Numbers, and subtitled " Confessions of a Russian opium-eater ".

In the US, the new novels Moscow Club ( 1991 ) by Joseph Finder, Masquerade ( 1996 ) by Gayle Lynds, and The Unlikely Spy ( 1996 ) by Daniel Silva, and in the UK, A Spy By Nature ( 2001 ) by Charles Cumming and Remembrance Day ( 2000 ) by Henry Porter, maintained the spy novel in the post – Cold War world.

Le Mesurier followed the film with roles in The Early Bird, Masquerade, and Ken Annakin's Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, before appearing in The Liquidator, a 1965 thriller based on the novel of the same name by John Gardner.

* Masquerade, a Blue Bloods novel by Melissa de la Cruz

He wrote the short novel Modernaj Robinzonoj ( Modern Robinsons ) ( 1923 ), and Maskerado ĉirkaŭ la morto ( Masquerade ( dance ) around death ), published 1965, an autobiographical novel about his experience during the Nazi occupation of Budapest, Hungary.

He eventually returned to Trinidad in 1970 ( after spending two years as part of the Trinidadian diplomatic corps in Brazil, where his novel King of the Masquerade is set ) and worked variously as an editor, a researcher for the Ministry of Culture, and as a radio broadcaster of historical programmes.

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick.

The abbreviation " andy ", coined as a pejorative by writer Philip K. Dick in his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, has seen some further usage, such as within the TV series Total Recall 2070.

The novel begins with the droogs sitting in their favorite hangout ( the Korova Milkbar ), drinking milk-drug cocktails, called " milk-plus ", to hype themselves for the night's mayhem.

During these visits Shelley wrote the poem " Mont Blanc ", Byron wrote " The Prisoner of Chillon " and the dramatic poem Manfred, and Mary Shelley, who found the scenery overwhelming, conceived the idea for the novel Frankenstein in her villa on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of a thunderstorm.

In the 1516 novel Utopia by Thomas More, the island called Utopia once had the name " Abraxa ", which scholars have suggested is a related use.

* Absalom is the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in " Lost in the Stars ", Kurt Weil's play based on the novel " Cry the Beloved Country ".

These include " The Outcasts of Heaven Belt ", " Legacy ", and an upcoming novel featuring Pham Nuwen.

An arcology is also depicted in the 1968 futuristic novel " The World Inside ", by Robert Silverberg, where in the year 2381 the human race lives in 1000-storey-high towers, providing everything necessary to the society ( nutrition, energy, entertainment, jobs, etc .).

He wrote the first important symphonic work in Chilean tradition, " La Muerte de Alcino ", a symphonic poem inspired by the novel of Pedro Prado.

The 2009 novel Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy takes its title from Housman's poem " Reveille ", and a line from Housman's poem XVI " How Clear, How Lovely Bright ", was used for the title of the last Inspector Morse book The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter.

* The character of John Isidore, and his " pet hospital ", is taken from Dick's original novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, although that book contained no suggestion that the shop ran a sideline in modifying replicants.

* Court History of David or Succession narrative ( 2 Samuel 9-20 and 1 Kings 1-2 ): a " historical novel ", in Alberto Soggin's phrase, telling the story of David's reign from his affair with Bathsheba to his death.

* Two Witches, a Finnish Gothic rock band, created a song in the early 1990s called " Mircalla ", inspired by the novel.

* " The Cyclops ", an episode of James Joyce's novel Ulysses

Famed Western writer Max Brand contributed the novel, Destry Rides Again, but the film also owes its origins to Brand's serial " Twelve Peers ", published in a pulp-magazine.

T. S. Eliot called Collins's novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ) " the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels ... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe ", and Dorothy L. Sayers called it " probably the very finest detective story ever written ".

Although The Moonstone is usually seen as the first detective novel, a number of critics suggest that the lesser known Notting Hill Mystery ( 1862 – 63 ), written by the pseudonymous " Charles Felix ", preceded it by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre.

While it would take sometime for this novel concept to catch on with the " die hard Vinyl DJs ", This would soon become the first step in the new Digital DJ revolution.

The founder of the epistolary novel in English is said by many to be James Howell ( 1594 – 1666 ) with " Familiar Letters ", who writes of prison, foreign adventure, and the love of women.

* Kathrine Taylor's Address Unknown ( 1938 ) was an anti-Nazi novel in which the final letter is returned as " Address Unknown ", indicating the disappearance of the German character.

It is less generally realized that his Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer ( 1964 ) was a similar exercise, exploring theological questions through correspondence addressed to a fictional recipient, " Malcolm ", though this work may be considered a " novel " only loosely in that developments in Malcolm's personal life gradually come to light and impact the discussion.

After the 1932 release of MGM's adaptation of The Mask of Fu Manchu, which featured the Asian villain telling an assembled group of " Asians " ( consisting of caricatural Indians, Persians and Arabs ) that they must " kill the white men and take their women ", a Harvard University student group petitioned MGM producer William Randolph Hearst ( who had also serialized the novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine ) to cease making further films based on the property.

* Voltaire's novel Candide purports to be assembled from the notes of a deceased " Monsieur le docteur Ralph ", likely because the novel pokes fun at most of the powers of Europe at the time.