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Novels adapted into video games

  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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.
  • 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…
  • The Mist (novella)Stephen King wrote The Mist during the summer of 1976. He drew inspiration from a real thunderstorm that struck his home area in Maine.
  • Water MarginIn the year 1120, a group of outlaws led by Song Jiang gathered at Mount Liang to challenge the Northern Song government.