James T. Costa said that because the book was an abstract produced in haste in response to Wallace's essay, it was more approachable than the big book on natural selection Darwin had been working on, which would have been encumbered by scholarly footnotes and much more technical detail.

The ecology of the Maluku Islands has fascinated naturalists for centuries ; Alfred Wallace's book, The Malay Archipelago was the first significant study of the area's natural history, and remains an important resource for studying Indonesian biodiversity.

The book itself went on to inspire the plot for a wide array of novels, from Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur ( 1880 ), a Science Fiction retelling in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, to Stephen Fry's contemporary The Stars ' Tennis Balls,

For example, the British had been fascinated by Edgar Wallace's ( 1875 – 1932 ) crime novels ever since the author set up a competition offering a reward to any reader who could figure out and describe just how the murder in his first book, The Four Just Men ( 1906 ), was committed.

Frontispiece to Alfred Russel Wallace's book The Geographical Distribution of Animals

Blind Harry claimed his work was based on a book by Father John Blair, Wallace's boyhood friend and personal chaplain.

The book also concludes differently from the movie, ending with Mark returning to Uncle Wallace's home in Maine one year later.

The same unnamed technique also appeared in Irving Wallace's book The Word ( 1972 ).

The play, based on Lew Wallace's book Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, opened on Broadway in November, 1899 and proved to be a great success.

In 2003, Wallace's book Join Me was published.

Wallace's second solo book, Yes Man was published in July 2005.

Wallace's book Awkward Situations for Men was released on 3 June 2010 and reached number 3 in the best-sellers list.

Wallace's latest book and debut novel, Charlotte Street, was released on 10 May 2012 under Ebury Publishing.

After Wallace's book appeared, Pepsi-Cola Addict became a valuable collector's item, and the novel has been reprinted several times.

Edwards was interviewed by Mike Wallace on May 5, 1957, as noted in Wallace's 2006 book " Between You and Me ".

In the book, Bremer states that he was not particularly opposed to Wallace's political agenda, which many had branded as white supremacist, but that his primary motive was to become famous, and that he had also stalked President Richard M. Nixon.

"' Put the book down and slowly walk away ': Irony and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest ".

" David Foster Wallace's seminal novel Infinite Jest has James Incandenza as an alcoholic filmmaker and tennis academy head who drinks Wild Turkey ; and in Scott Sigler ’ s science fiction book Infected, main character Perry Dawsey is described several times as drinking Wild Turkey.

Similarly, anagram aficionados Francis Heaney and Guy Jacobson pointed out that similarly incriminating anagrams could be derived from Wallace's own book.

*" Jack Through the Looking-Glass ( or Wallace in Wonderland )" – An article by Karoline Leach from Ripper Notes, January 2001 ( issue # 7 ), giving more detailed criticism of Wallace's book.

Tina Fey's 2011 memoir Bossypants also includes a chapter on her own cruise experience, entitled My Honeymoon: Or, A Supposedly Fun Thing That I ’ ll Never Do Again Either, in which she jokingly suggests that those who've heard of Foster Wallace's book should consider themselves members of the " cultural elite ", who hate their country and flag.

In 1908, perhaps seeking to capitalize on the publicity of the case and the film, Harper & Brothers published a lavishly designed and illustrated book, The Chariot Race from Ben-Hur, which excerpted only the race from Lew Wallace's novel.

Wallace's book, Our Debt and Duty to the Farmer, was published posthumously.

Like much of Wallace's work, the essay is written in postmodern style.

These devices were introduced in 1994 in NASCAR following Rusty Wallace's crash at Talladega.

These efforts were unsuccessful, largely because of Lovely's lack of independent territory ; Wallace's own flat being within the UK.

Darwin had his basic theory of natural selection " by which to work " by December 1838, yet almost twenty years later, when Wallace's letter arrived on 18 June 1858, Darwin was still not ready to publish his theory.

With reinforcement troops from Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell and Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace's missing division, Grant succeeded in driving the Confederates back to the road from Corinth ; though he stopped short of capturing Beauregard's army, he was able to stabilize the Army of the Tennessee.

While not overtly setting the series in any particular town, Nick Park had previously hinted that its milieu was inspired by thoughts of 1950s Wigan, reinforced by an A-Z Wigan being displayed on Wallace's Anti-Pesto van in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Although he was a minor member of the Scottish nobility, little is known for certain of William Wallace's family history.

Wallace's year of birth can only be guessed at, although he was probably a relatively young man at the time of his military exploits and death.

The film, a highly fictionalized account of Wallace's life, was a commercial success and won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, but has been widely criticized by historians for its inaccuracies.

Anderson's finish was still the best showing for a third party candidate since George Wallace's 14 % in 1968 and the sixth best for any such candidate in the 20th century ( trailing Theodore Roosevelt's 27 % in 1912, Robert LaFollette's 17 % in 1924, Wallace, and Ross Perot's 19 % and 8 % in 1992 and 1996, respectively ).

When Wallace's father was elected as lieutenant governor of Indiana, he moved his family to Covington, Indiana.

During the campaign Wallace's brigade was attached to Brig.

Wallace's division held the extreme right of the Union line and was the first to attack on April 7.

A two-handed claymore, purporting to be Wallace's, which may contain original metal from his sword blade, was kept by the Scottish kings and is displayed as a relic in the Wallace Monument.

Bruce's army, like William Wallace's before him, was chiefly composed of infantry armed with long spears.

LeMay was commonly assumed to share Wallace's widely unpopular racist views, even though LeMay had enthusiastically supported racial integration in the US military publicly and privately.

Wallace was originally called Wallace's Siding after Wallace Sutherland, who was assigned to the railroad depot.

After Wallace's death the home was left to his nephew who lost the property to a sheriff sale.

Others claim that the city was named for Wallace's father, Benjamin F. Williamson.

The songs were recorded in Matt Wallace's parent's garage, where Wallace had set up and been running a recording studio while the band was still recording under the name Sharp Young Men, with M Morris, Billy Gould, Mike Bordin and Wade Worthington.

" Lew Wallace's division was 5 miles ( 8 km ) downstream ( north ) at Crump's Landing, a position intended to prevent the placement of Confederate river batteries and to strike out at the railroad line at Bethel Station.

After A Close Shave, Wallace and Gromit's next major outing was in a set of 10 2½-minute shorts called Cracking Contraptions, each showing one of Wallace's inventions, usually with disastrous results.

This was a lengthy poem recounting the life of William Wallace, the Scottish freedom fighter, written around 1477, 172 years after Wallace's death.