Curated category
American novels adapted into films
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'; but that ain't no matter." That is how Adventures of…
- The Sun Also RisesThe Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway's first novel, opens on a wound that cannot be spoken of plainly. Jake Barnes, an American journalist in Paris, is in…
- Mazes and Monsters (novel)Mazes and Monsters, a 1981 novel by Rona Jaffe, warns readers about the imagined dangers of the then-new hobby of fantasy role-playing games.
- The Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby arrived in bookshops on the 10th of April 1925 carrying a dust jacket unlike anything else in American publishing.
- Moby-DickMoby-Dick; or, The Whale begins with three words that have never lost their power: "Call me Ishmael." Herman Melville wrote those words as the opening of an…
- Carrie (novel)Stephen King wrote the opening pages of Carrie in a trailer in Hermon, Maine, during 1973. He had just finished teaching English at Hampden Academy and was…
- Gone with the Wind (novel)Gone with the Wind arrived in bookstores in June 1936 at the virtually unprecedented price of three dollars, and within months it had sold roughly a million…
- The Red Badge of CourageThe Red Badge of Courage dropped onto American bookshelves on the 3rd of October 1895, and within a year it had already gone through ten editions.
- Cthulhu MythosThe Cthulhu Mythos begins with a single sentence. In his short story "The Call of Cthulhu", H. P. Lovecraft wrote: "The most merciful thing in the world, I…
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? opens in a San Francisco where the sky itself has turned against its inhabitants. A nuclear war has left Earth's…
- The Mist (novella)Stephen King wrote The Mist during the summer of 1976. He drew inspiration from a real thunderstorm that struck his home area in Maine.