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British novels adapted into television shows

  • 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 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.
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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.
  • 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…
  • 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…