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message 1: by Kirsten (new)
Jun 14, 2016 12:27PM

Kirsten (kmcripn) Finished listening to Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie yesterday. A romantic ghost story inspired by Henry James' classic novella The Turn of the Screw.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Other books I've read (off the top of my head) inspired by classics were Megan Shepherd trilogy:

1) The Madman’s Daughter inspired by The Island of Dr. Moreau

2) Her Dark Curiosity inspired by The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

3) A Cold Legacy inspired by Frankenstein


message 2: by Leslie (new)
Jun 14, 2016 07:14PM

Leslie | 904 comments Have you read A Thousand Acres? I have heard this is inspired by King Lear...


message 3: by Dennis (new)
Jun 17, 2016 02:47PM

Dennis Fischman (dfischman) | 198 comments Wide Sargasso Sea, inspired by (and a sort of prequel to) Jane Eyre.


message 4: by Leslie (new)
Jun 17, 2016 05:45PM

Leslie | 904 comments Oh, I listened to the audiobook of Dodger - inspired by Dickens' Oliver Twist (clearly!)... it was fun but Oliver Twist is a better book.


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