When she made it, the results, starring Margaret Rutherford, were popular and successful light comedies, but were disappointing to Christie herself ; nevertheless, Agatha Christie dedicated the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side to Rutherford.

When he finally dies at the end of the novel, the situation report from the frontline states, " All is Quiet on the Western Front ," symbolizing the cheapness of human life in war.

When the second novel, Dune Messiah, opens, Muad ’ Dib ’ s religion has sent his fanatical soldiers on an interstellar jihad, destroying the traditional structures of government and leaving billions dead.

When it was first published, Don Quixote was usually interpreted as a comic novel.

When Aldington first published his novel, he redacted a number of passages in order to ensure the publication of his book would not be challenged.

Not all his scientific romances ended in a happy Utopia, and in fact, Wells also wrote a dystopian novel, When the Sleeper Wakes ( 1899, rewritten as The Sleeper Awakes, 1910 ), which pictures a future society where the classes have become more and more separated, leading to a revolt of the masses against the rulers.

When it was pointed out to Niven that the Ringworld was dynamically unstable, in that once the center of rotation drifted away from the central sun, gravity would pull the ring into contact with the star, he used this as a plot element in the sequel novel, The Ringworld Engineers.

When beginning her first novel, Shards of Honor, Bujold incorporated these elements, but greatly expanded.

When such mutations result in a higher fitness, natural selection will favor these phenotypes and the novel trait will spread in the population.

When he rewrote Radio Free Albemuth as VALIS beforehand, Dick incorporated the plotline of Radio Free Albemuth as a backdrop film ( also titled VALIS ) that recapitulated the central theological and existential concerns of his novel as a mise en abyme-that is, a miniature copy of his central preoccupations at this stage of his literary career, common to both works.

When Ayn Rand's novel " The Fountainhead " was published, Heinlein was very favorably impressed, as quoted in " Grumbles ...".

* Circuit's Edge ( 1990 ), an adaptation of When Gravity Fails ( novel )

" When the case collapsed, the novel went on to become a bestseller, selling two million copies.

When the film of The Story Of O was released, L ' Express magazine ran a feature on the novel and film.

When those plans did not come to fruition, Fleming adapted the ideas to form the basis of the novel, which he originally titled The Wound Man.

He has a role in Sharon Kay Penman's novel When Christ and His Saints Slept.

After producing a film adaption of his 1968 novel Only When I Larf, Deighton and photographer Brian Duffy bought the film rights to Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop's stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War!

When the novel sold well, Eon producers Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli approached Deighton to write the script for the next 007 film, From Russia With Love ( 1963 ); despite Deighton's efforts, little of his screenplay was filmed.

When his second book, the novel Such a Long Journey, was published in 1991, it won the Governor General's Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, and the W. H.

A mystery novel by Barbara Paul, But He Was Already Dead When I Got There ( 1987 ), is dedicated by the author to her viewing of the original Perry Mason TV series, and was inspired by it.

When he published All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque changed his middle name in memory of his mother and reverted to the earlier spelling of the family name to dissociate himself from his novel Die Traumbude.

When Worlds Collide ( 1951 ) based on a 1933 novel by Philip Wylie, deals with two planets on a collision course with Earth – the smaller planet a " near miss ," causing extensive damage and destruction, followed by a direct hit from the larger planet.

When the novel was being printed in 1753, Richardson discovered that Irish printers were trying to pirate the work.

When the U. S. Navy hesitated about endorsing a possible film and aiding the production, studios shied away from purchasing the film rights to Herman Wouk's novel.

For example, in the classic novel Journey to the West ( circa 1590 ), Sun Wukong tells a lion-monster in chapter 75: " When I passed through Guangzhou, I bought a pot for cooking za sui – so I'll savour your liver, entrails, and lungs.

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

When irregularity and variation prevent summarizing, information is written in complete detail.

When written in Devanagari, Vedic Sanskrit has an alphabet of 53 letters, including the visarga mark for final aspiration and special letters for kš and jñ, though one of the letters is theoretical and not actually used.

: When comparing the above illustration to the below text, please note that the above x: y aspect ratio values are shown as vertical orientation rectangles to better demonstrate visual differences, whereas the aspect ratio values of the text below are written as rotated horizontal orientation rectangles ( e. g. compare 3: 4 vertical orientation illustration to 4: 3 horizontal orientation text ).

When originally used in Olney, it is unknown what music, if any, accompanied the verses written by John Newton.

* When written with all capital letters, see ABA ( disambiguation )

When LTR text is mixed with RTL in the same paragraph, each type of text is written in its own direction, which is known as bi-directional text.

When these principles are written down into a single collection or set of legal documents, those documents may be said to comprise a written constitution.

When the Polish words and melodies started to become popular, including many new secular pastorals ( pastoralka, or shepherd's songs ), they were not written down originally, but rather taught among people by heart.

When Kaye went for his first written pilot's exam, he brought a liverwurst sandwich in case he was there for hours.

When a coefficient is one, it is usually omitted ( e. g. is written ).

When he was 25, he took a sales job selling books written and published by American philosopher, Elbert Hubbard.

When it is necessary to distinguish between native Japanese kun ' yomi and Chinese-derived on ' yomi pronunciations, for example in Kanji dictionaries, the Japanese pronunciations are written in hiragana, and the Chinese ones are written in katakana.

When exactly Gesta Danorum was written is the subject of numerous works ; however, it is generally agreed that Gesta Danorum was not finished before 1208.

* When they appear at the beginning of a syllable, vowels are written as independent letters.

When the Romans and written history arrived in 57 BC, the country was sparsely populated by various tribal groups at the periphery of the empire.

When a company official comes to his door asking for the report on the savages, written by Kurtz, Marlow gives him the report.

When ionized hydrogen is written as " H < sup >+</ sup >" as in the solvation of classical acids such as hydrochloric acid, the hydronium ion, H < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sup >+</ sup >, is meant, not a literal ionized single hydrogen atom.

When coming to Kubla Khan, he pointed out: " instead of being content to have written finely under the influence of laudanum, recommends ' Kubla-Khan ' to his readers, not as a poem, but as ' a psychological curiosity ' ... Every lover of books, scholar or not, who knows what it is to have his quarto open against a loaf at his tea ... ought to be in possession of Mr. Coleridge's poems, if it is only for ' Christabel ', ' Kubla Khan ', and the ' Ancient Mariner '.

Those in Abraham's bosom are those of whom it is written of Jesus, " When He ascended on high, He led captive a host of captives ..." ( Eph.

When his manager informed him that a band by the name of " Bastard " would never get a slot on " Top of the Pops ", Lemmy changed the band's name to " Motörhead " – the title of the last song he had written for Hawkwind.

When data is fetched from memory and placed into the MDR, it is written to in one direction.

When there is a write instruction, the data to be written is placed into the MDR from another CPU register, which then puts the data into memory.