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American novels adapted into television shows

  • Adventures of Huckleberry FinnIn Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck believes he will go to hell and still vows to free Jim.
  • Mazes and Monsters (novel)In 1985, a psychiatrist held up a fictional character's letter as proof that gamers died.
  • Moby-DickMoby-Dick sold poorly and Melville died in 1891 without seeing it celebrated. Its fame came entirely after his death.
  • Carrie (novel)Stephen King threw his first Carrie pages in the trash, and his wife pulled them out.
  • Dune (novel)Dune, Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel, was first printed by a company better known for auto repair manuals. More than twenty publishers had already turned the manuscript down. Chilton Books accepted it in August 1965 and priced…
  • A Song of Ice and FireA Song of Ice and Fire began with one image: a boy watching a beheading.
  • The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane wrote the Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage without ever seeing a battlefield.
  • North and South (trilogy)In John Jakes's North and South, two West Point friends end up on opposite sides of the Civil War.
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?The term Blade Runner never appears in Dick's novel, yet some later printings used it as the title.
  • The Wheel of TimeThe Wheel of Time, a high fantasy series by the American author Robert Jordan, opens with a sentence that sounds like scripture: "The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend." Everything that…
  • The Mist (novella)This page is about The Mist, a novella.

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