In April 2025 the Empire State Building was lit up in green to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this novel's publication
A critic described this novel as "A man from down South sitting in a manhole up north... & signifying about how he got there"
Likely a nod to the actor who first played him in 1962, this character was subsequently given Scottish ancestry by way of his father
The author of this novel said of the last chapter left off U.S. editions, "My young thuggish protagonist grows up"
Midway through this 1928 novel, the title character briefly takes "their" instead of his or her
A 2012 book review noted subjects that "sparked his ire": capital punishment, big tobacco & "the plight of the unjustly convicted"
He served with an airman named Yohannan in World War II & despite what readers might think, he said he enjoyed his service
Published in 1991, this novel, the first in a series, has been described as "historical fiction with a Moebius twist"
Referring to the book's title, this character says, "I know it's a poem by Robert Burns"
A 1590 poem written for the retirement of Queen Elizabeth's champion knight shares its title with this 1929 novel by an American
This character from an 1851 novel "was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge"
In this novel the surname of a pastor, his wife & 4 sons is not given in the text; the title was meant to evoke a 1719 novel
Lady Duff Twysden was the basis for a character in this 1926 novel set partly in Spain
A laboratory known as the House of Pain is on Noble's Isle, the title setting of this novel
This book defines its own title as "concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers... was the process of a rational mind"
The title character of this novel says of his home, "The wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements"
In a 1952 novel, he wrote, "But there were dry years too, & they put a terror on the valley. The water came in a thirty-year cycle"
Prior to a murder in a 1934 book, he says he hasn't been a detective since 1927 & that his wife inherited a lumber mill
For help with research, the author of this 2003 novel acknowledged the Louvre, Catholic World News & "five members of Opus Dei"
A boy at the end of this 1952 novel says to the main character, "Say it ain't true, Roy"
This 1990 novel made into a blockbuster film says the Hammond Foundation "has spent $17 million on amber"
A preface to this novel calls it "a loud hee-haw at all who yearn for utopia... & a pretty good fable in the Aesop tradition"
"I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet"
A 2015 BBC list of the 25 greatest British novels included 12 by women, 3 of them by this woman who died in 1941
One orphan arriving before him was given the surname Swubble; some arriving later were to be Unwin & Vilkins
"A man can be destroyed but not defeated" is a line from this 1952 book, later a Spencer Tracy film
In a Spanish translation of this novel, Chapter 1 begins, "Era el mejor de los tiempos, era el peor de los tiempos"
The title of this 1908 novel is an allusion to the hotel in Florence where the novel starts & ends the next year
The 1st scene in this book: "With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene"
Local legend says that Top Withens, the Yorkshire farmhouse seen here, may have been an inspiration for this novel
In some countries the subtitle "A Contemporary Satire" was used for this 1945 parable
This lawyer from a famed 1960 novel shares a name with an ancient Roman renowned for his wisdom
"His madness being stronger than any other faculty", he "resolved to have himself dubbed a knight by the first person he met"
Stephen King borrowed the name of his fictional town Castle Rock from this 1950s novel that greatly influenced him
One of this man's "most priceless memories" is of "a delicately nurtured Southern belle with her Irish up"
The title of this 1951 novel comes from the hero's fantasy of rescuing children falling from a cliff
Chapter 1 of this 1952 book ends, "This is about the way the Salinas valley was when my grandfather... settled in the foothills"
Its first line is "A green hunting cap squeezed on the top of the fleshy balloon of a head"
This 1934 novel was partly written in the Hotel Pera Palace in Istanbul; the room is now a memorial to the author
Appropriately, the sound of musketry & artillery is described as "a crimson roar" in this story
In his will, this title guy tells his niece Antonia she should marry a man who knows not "about... chivalry"
A preface to this novel called it "rustic all through... Moorish, and wild, and knotty as the root of Heath"
Fittingly, this Thomas Hardy character is introduced near the Pure Drop Inn
In this novel the title character says, "It is a bad omen" after a guard does not hear a train & is crushed
Its title phrase traces back to a stand by heavily outnumbered British infantry against a cavalry charge
The title of this scandalous novel set in 1930s Paris symbolizes "the disease of civilization"
A letter in this mystery says, "We are going... to Luxor and Assuan by steamer, and perhaps on to Khartoum"
This title guy says, "Do you believe in my innocence, in the fiendishness of my accusers? Reassure me with a hallelujah!"
An audio version of this anti-war novel by a once blacklisted author has introductions from Cindy Sheehan & Ron Kovic
The title of this 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner comes from a Jonathan Swift line about how lesser minds unite to oppose genius