Pollyanna Whittier appears in Alan Moore's comic "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", Volume 1. She is shown to retain her optimistic outlook despite being raped by the character Griffin. Pollyanna Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same very optimistic outlook: a subconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna principle. The book was such a success that Porter soon produced a sequel, "Pollyanna Grows Up" (1915). Eleven more "Pollyanna" sequels, known as
Hässelby (novel) Hässelby (novel) Hässelby (Original title: "Hässelby") is a novel by the Norwegian author Johan Harstad, published in 2007. The title refers to Hässelby, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. Albert Åberg (Alfie Atkins in English, Alfons Åberg in Swedish), the main character of the novel, is also the name of a well known Swedish children's book's character, famous from the books by Gunilla Bergström. In these children's books, Albert is a boy between the age of four and six, living together with his father. In Harstad's novel, Albert is 42 years old and still lives with his father in the same