25 Books Made into Movies (Brewster's Millions, Call of the Wild, Canterville Ghost, Cleopatra, Great Expectations, Hound of the Baskervilles, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Tale of Two Cities, Time Machine, White Fang, Pride & Prejudice, Rob Roy, +)

by Edith Wharton, Jack London, Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen

Overview

One of Hollywood’s favorite pastimes is turning a favorite book into a much-anticipating movie. This always fuels the debate: Was the movie as good as the book? Was the book as good as the movie?

This collection showcases 25 such books. Read them and judge for yourself!

Volume 1 contains:

Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maude Montgomery
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, by Lew Wallace
Brewster’s Millions, by George Barr McCutcheon
Call of the Wild, by Jack London
The Canterville Ghost, by Oscar Wilde
Cleopatra, by Henry Rider Haggard
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Howards End, by E. M. Forster
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Jules Verne
The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Rob Roy, by Sir Walter Scott
The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad
Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
White Fang, by Jack London
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012254061
Publisher:	Smashbooks
Publication date:	11/30/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Born into a prosperous New York family, Edith Wharton (1862-1937) wrote more than 15 novels, including The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and other esteemed books. She was distinguished for her work in the First World War and was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from Yale University. She died in France at the age of 75.

Date of Birth:

January 24, 1862

Date of Death:

August 11, 1937

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France

Education:

Educated privately in New York and Europe