Fight Club (novel) what would later become his novel "Invisible Monsters" (1999), but it was rejected by all publishers he submitted it to. Palahniuk then decided to write an even darker novel, by expanding upon his short story, "Fight Club". Initially "Fight Club" was published as a seven-page short story in the compilation "Pursuit of Happiness" (1995), but Palahniuk expanded it to novel length (in which the original short story became chapter six); "Fight Club: A Novel" was published in 1996. "Fight Club: A Novel" was re-issued in 1999 and 2004; the latter edition includes the author's introduction about the conception and popularity
The House of the Dead (novel) than their real-life counterparts. "The House of the Dead" was Dostoevsky’s only work that Leo Tolstoy revered. In 1927–1928, Leoš Janáček wrote an operatic version of the novel, with the title "From the House of the Dead". It was his last opera. In 1932, the novel was adapted to a film, directed by Vasili Fyodorov and starring Nikolay Khmelyov. The House of the Dead (novel) The House of the Dead (, "Zapiski iz Myortvogo doma") is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860–2 in the journal "Vremya" by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian