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 the user first opens their web browser, it automatically brings you to this page, which is also sometimes called the start page.

When it exceeds the design temperature it opens the contacts, cooling until the temperature drops enough to restore magnetisation.

When an image is taken, the mirror moves upwards from its resting position in the direction of the arrow, the focal plane shutter ( 3 ) opens, and the image is projected onto the film or sensor ( 4 ) in exactly the same manner as on the focusing screen.

* March 22 – The landmark art exhibition When Attitudes become Form, curated by Harald Szeemann opens at the Kunsthalle Bern in Bern, Switzerland.

When the addressee finally opens the envelope, the top-level SDU, the letter itself, emerges.

When they pull him from the water, they think he is dead, but when he opens his mouth, the pilot has a fit.

When she opens it and sees the ring, joy conquers her, and out of happiness she chants this poem ( Arabic ):

When a tree dies in a mature forest the canopy opens up and sunlight becomes available as a source of energy for new growth.

When Rynn opens the trap door, Mrs. Hallet is dead.

When he opens his eyes he finds Ralinge and his assistants dead, dispatched bloodily, and Vosill free and in the process of removing his bindings, no indication of how she was freed.

When the normally open contacts of both switches close, electricity is able to flow to the motor which opens the door.

When the novel opens, Tierwater is a 75-year-old disillusioned ex-con living on the estate of a famous pop star in the Santa Ynez Valley, north of Santa Barbara, in California and looking after the latter's private menagerie.

When the novel opens, Edek Zepler is an old man of 76 who certainly enjoys good food, a man living alone with his dog in the old house in Melbourne, feeling rather alone — in spite of an active Jewish community in his neighbourhood — and without any life in him since his wife's death in 1986 (" The saddest thing did already happen to me.

When the novel opens they have just moved to New York City, and Esther starts working as a writer of obituaries.

When he takes out and opens a small device, Klaatu is shot and wounded by a nervous soldier.

When checking, a player declines to make a bet ; this indicates that he does not wish to open, but does wish to keep his cards and retain the right to call or raise later in the same round if an opponent opens.

When he is unable to unlock the front door with the key from the bag, he takes Margot's key from the staircase and opens the door, proving his guilt.

When the raven fails to return, he opens the ark and frees its inhabitants.

When the film of Girl Steals Boy opens, Sammy is credited for " original screenplay " and Blumberg is not acknowledged.

When Mormo is dueling Tristan ( Charlie Cox ) toward the end of the movie, he opens a cage of ferrets, used for sacrifice.

When she opens her eyes and sees the police, she tells Angel she is " almost glad " because " now I shall not live for you to despise me ".

When Gwydion later opens the chest he discovered the lump of flesh to be a second child.

When the fourth platform opens it will help ease to congestion for trains heading south and to South Wales ; it has been confirmed that it will be numbered platform 1.

When he pushes the middle one, a small door in his belly opens revealing a compartment which he uses to store items.