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British novels adapted into films

  • James BondIan Fleming created the fictional character of James Bond as the central figure for his works. Bond is an intelligence officer in the Secret Intelligence…
  • The Pickwick PapersThe first issue of The Pickwick Papers appeared in March 1836. It contained two chapters and cost one shilling. Each subsequent number followed a strict…
  • A Christmas CarolIn 1843, London streets buzzed with a strange energy as people began to talk about Christmas in new ways. The holiday had once been a raucous celebration of…
  • The Lord of the RingsIn the quiet village of Hobbiton, a hobbit named Frodo Baggins inherits a simple gold ring from his uncle Bilbo. This object is not merely jewelry but the…
  • The Borrowers (novel)Mary Norton published The Borrowers in 1952 through Dent. This children's fantasy novel introduced a family of tiny people living secretly within the walls…
  • FrankensteinMary Shelley stood at the edge of a waking dream on the night of the 16th of June 1816. The air inside Villa Diodati felt heavy with damp and the smell of…
  • Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë began writing Jane Eyre in Manchester during the summer of 1845, drawing directly from her own childhood trauma and family history.
  • Harry PotterIn a cupboard under the stairs, a boy named Harry Potter lived with his aunt and uncle who treated him poorly. At age 11, he discovered that he was a wizard…
  • The Other Boleyn GirlIn 1521 England, Queen Catherine of Aragon had been married to King Henry VIII for two decades yet produced only one daughter.
  • The War of the WorldsIn the summer of 1894, a strange object thought to be a meteor crashed onto Horsell Common near Woking. The narrator watched from his home as the cylinder…
  • Alice's Adventures in WonderlandOn the 4th of July 1862, Lewis Carroll rowed a boat up the River Isis with three young girls. The journey began at Folly Bridge in Oxford and ended upstream…
  • Midnight's ChildrenThe clock strikes midnight on the 15th of August 1947. Saleem Sinai enters the world at that exact second, linking his heartbeat to the birth of a new nation.
  • Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen began writing the novel after staying at Goodnestone Park in Kent with her brother Edward and his wife in 1796.
  • Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryRoald Dahl sat at his desk in 1964 and began writing a story about a boy named Charlie Bucket. The idea came from his time as a student at Repton School in…
  • Heart of DarknessIn 1890, a thirty-two-year-old Polish-British sailor named Joseph Conrad boarded a Belgian trading steamer bound for the African interior.
  • To the LighthouseMrs Ramsay stands in the Ramsays' summer home on the Isle of Skye and tells her six-year-old son James that they will visit the lighthouse tomorrow.
  • The Two TowersThe Two Towers first appeared in print during 1954 as the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.
  • Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift began writing Gulliver's Travels in 1720, completing the manuscript by August 1725. The work emerged from a circle of writers known as the…
  • The Return of the KingJ. R. R. Tolkien conceived The Lord of the Rings as a single work containing six books plus extensive appendices. In 1953, he proposed specific titles for…
  • Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson wrote Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in the southern English seaside town of Bournemouth during 1886.
  • The Lost World (Doyle novel)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stood before the Royal Geographical Society on the 13th of February 1911. He listened intently as his friend Percy Harrison Fawcett…
  • The Fellowship of the RingThe first edition of The Fellowship of the Ring appeared on the 29th of July 1954 in the United Kingdom. J. R. R. Tolkien had originally envisioned his epic…