Novels
The first published book to feature Jack Ryan was The Hunt for Red October. Although the book was published years before Patriot Games, there are repeated references to events from Patriot Games within The Hunt for Red October, which strongly suggests that The Hunt for Red October was in fact written after the Patriot Games manuscript (or at least the first draft of the novel) was completed.
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Famous quotes containing the word novels:
“Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens—of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)