Dramatised by the BBC in 1990, Dobbs' House of Cards novel recently inspired a US remake starring Kevin Spacey.
American litigation has gotten nearly as bad as the British system of justice in the 19th Century when Charles Dickens wrote the lawyer-bashing novel Bleak House.
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Krauss second novel, Great House, is also structured around a similar premise, this time an unusual desk that comes to occupy a central position in the lives of those who posses it.
Another glorious example of the Gold Coast excess described in the novel, the house is complemented by the many trails of the preserve leading to lovely harbour views and the occasional sighting of a red-tailed hawk.
Big John is John Grisham, the 45-year-old lawyer-turned-author who became publisher of the magazine in 1994 and used it to test the waters for his upcoming novel, A Painted House, which was serialized in the six issues of the Oxford American last year.
Mr. Naipaul produced his funniest and most humane novel, "A House for Mr. Biswas" (1961), out of the small tragedies of his father's life.
He quoted from Kurt Vonnegut Jr's short story Harrison Bergeron, contained in the novel Welcome To The Monkey House, which says by 2081 "everybody was finally of equal strength intelligence and beauty" due to the "unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General".
Finally, end the third trilogy with a story about the Joker taking over Arkham Asylum, and use influences from both the famous graphic novel Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth and a few bits from the video game Arkham City.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the decision was "novel and unprecedented".
According to Mr. Norman's website, he reached into his bottom drawer for a song he had already written for an aborted musical called "A House For Mr. Biswas, " based on the novel by V.
In the section that opens the novel, it is 1913 and Cecil Valance is visiting the family house of his Cambridge chum, George Sawle.
Our Turkish friend Tom Jarvis and his new house-mate and partner-in-crime Mike Denbee have undertaken a novel fish-based diet to devastating effect while Alex Davies has been religiously counting calories and abstaining from little treats in order to get rid of his "love-handles".
The House of the Seven Gables was also made famous in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 novel, which brings to life the gloomy Puritan atmosphere of early New England.
None of this is particularly novel: in recent years Frankfurt's stockmarket, derivatives exchange and clearing house have all been brought under one roof, and Singapore and Australia are planning the same.
If you think the rest of the world is interested in hearing about your collection of Ottoman porcelain or why "The Catcher in the Rye" is the great American novel (yawn) you really do need an ego the size of a house.
Palacio's acclaimed story of a boy born with a facial deformity will compete in the 5-12-year-old category against Jim Smith for his novel Barry Loser: I Am Not A Loser, Helen Peters' The Secret Hen House Theatre, as well as Rodkey's tale about cut-throat pirates.
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Visitors to Jane Austen's House Museum, in Chawton, Hampshire, can view a rarely seen letter in which Austen says the novel is "my own darling child".
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