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Novels adapted into comics

  • 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…
  • 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…
  • The Great GatsbyIn 1922, a young F. Scott Fitzgerald stood on the lawn of his Long Island estate and watched the lights flicker across the water toward East Egg.
  • 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…
  • Moby-DickHerman Melville signed on as a green hand for the maiden voyage of the whaler Acushnet on the 30th of December 1840. This five-year journey provided the raw…
  • 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.
  • The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers in 1844, but the story began much earlier. In 1700, a writer named Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras released…
  • 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.
  • The TrialFranz Kafka drafted the opening sentence of The Trial in August 1914. He worked on the novel throughout 1915 during a period that was unusually productive…
  • Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes sold the rights to his novel El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha in July 1604. The publisher Francisco de Robles received a…
  • 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.
  • A Song of Ice and FireGeorge R. R. Martin began writing the first volume of his epic fantasy series in 1991, a project that would eventually expand from a planned trilogy into…
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?The year is 1992. Earth's atmosphere lies in ruins after a global nuclear war. Most animal species have vanished from the planet.
  • War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy began writing War and Peace in 1863, the year he married and settled at his country estate. He wrote to Elizabeth Bers asking for chronicles or…
  • The Stranger (Camus novel)The old people's home sits at Marengo, about eighty kilometers from Algiers. Meursault receives a telegram announcing his mother's death and travels to the…
  • Water MarginIn the year 1120, a group of outlaws led by Song Jiang gathered at Mount Liang to challenge the Northern Song government.
  • The Long ShipsThe year 982 marked the beginning of a journey that would span decades and continents. A young man named Orm Tostesson left his home in Scania, now southern…
  • BarbapapaTalus Taylor walked through the Luxembourg Garden in Paris during May 1970. He heard a child ask his parents for something called Baa baa baa baa.