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British novels adapted into plays
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- The HobbitIn the early 1930s, J. R. R. Tolkien sat at his desk as a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University. He was marking School Certificate papers when he…
- 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.
- 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 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…