On Page and Screen

Bringing together great literature and its equally great screen adaptations.

Note: Authors are included here if I own a screen adaptation of at least one of their works and have either reviewed / blogged about that screen adaptation or about any one of the author’s literary works.  At the same time, however, for each of these authors I am listing all of their literary works that I have reviewed or blogged about, regardless whether these specific works have also been adapted for the screen and / or I have also reviewed / blogged about the screen adaptation. — “On location” links may refer either to the author or to their works.

Isabel Allende

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits) (1982)
• Book: Cuentos de Eva Luna (The Stories of Eva Luna) (1989)

Margery Allingham

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: The White Cottage Mystery (1928)
• Book: The Crime at Black Dudley (1929)
• Book: Mystery Mile (1930)
• Book: Look to the Lady (1931)
• Book: Police at the Funeral (1931)
• Book: Sweet Danger (1933)
• Book: Death of a Ghost (1934) – post 1 and post 2
• Book: Flowers for the Judge (1936)
• Book: The Case of the Late Pig (1937)
• Book: Dancers in Mourning (1937)
• Book: The Fashion in Shrouds (1938)
• Book: Traitor’s Purse (1941)
• Book: More Work for the Undertaker (1948)
• Book: The Tiger in the Smoke (1952)

Hans Christian Andersen

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Fairy Tale: The Snow Queen (1844)
• Movie: The Snow Queen (Soyuzmultfilm / Films by Jove Inc., 1996)
• Movie Trailer: The Snow Queen (ZDF 2014)

Elizabeth von Arnim

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: The Solitary Summer (1899)
• Book: Elizabeth’s Adventures in Rügen (1904)
• On Location: Rügen Island, Germany post 1 – and post 2

Jane Austen

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Project: By a Lady
• Book: Sense and Sensibility (1811)
  • Audiobook narrated by Juliet Stevenson (Naxos Audiobooks Ltd. 2005)
• Screenplay: Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson, 1995)
• Movie: Sense and Sensibility (Columbia Pictures 1995, starring Emma Thompson)
• Book: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
  • The 2020 Special Edition: post 1 (LitHub) and post 2
• Book: Mansfield Park (1814)
• Book: Persuasion (1817)
• On Location: Chawton: Jane Austen’s Home – post 1 and post 2
• On Location: Bath
• On Location: Lyme Regis
• On Location: Winchester

L. Frank Baum

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Map: The Land of Oz (The Land of Oz — Disney: Oz the Great and Powerful storybook, 2013)

John Berendt

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Warner Bros. 1997, starring Kevin Spacey)

The Brontës: Charlotte, Anne, and Emily

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (1847)
  • Audiobook, narrated by Prunella Scales and Samuel West (Penguin Audiobooks, 1997)
• Book: Charlotte Brontë: Villette (1853)
• On Location: Haworth and the Yorkshire moors
• Fund Raising Appeal: Brontë Parsonage Museum

Raymond Chandler

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: Farewell My Lovely (1940)
• Book: The High Window (1942)
• Book: The Little Sister (1949)
• Book: The Long Goodbye (1953)
• Movie: The Big Sleep (Warner Bros. 1946, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall)
• On Location: Los Angeles

Agatha Christie

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Projects:
  • Little Grey Cells: St. Mary Mead & Elsewhere
  • Appointment With Agatha: The Agatha Christie Centenary Celebration

Nonfiction Books by and about Agatha Christie and Her Works

• Book: Agatha Christie & Mathew Prichard: The Grand Tour – Letters and Photographs from the British Empire Expedition
• Book: Agatha Christie: Come, Tell Me How You Live
• Book: Martin Edwards: The Golden Age of Murder
• Book: Kathryn Harkup: A Is for Arsenic – The Poisons of Agatha Christie
  • Introduction and Chapter 1: Arsenic
  • Chapter 3: Cyanide
  • Chapter 4: Digitalis
  • Chapter 6: Hemlock
  • Chapters 7-9: Monkshood, Nicotine, Opium
  • Chapters 10 & 11: Phosphorus & Ricin

Miss Marple

• Book: The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
  • Audiobook, narrated by Richard E. Grant (HarperCollins Publishers 2012)
• Book: The Thirteen Problems (1933)
• Book: A Murder Is Announced (1950)
• Book: A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
• Book: A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
• Book: Miss Marple’s Final Cases (1979)
• Book: Miss Marple – The Complete Short Stories (2001)
• TV Series: Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple (BBC 1984 – 1992, starring Joan Hickson)
  – and individual episodes:
  • The Body in the Library
  • A Murder Is Announced
  • A Pocketful of Rye
  • The Murder at the Vicarage
  • Nemesis
  • 4:50 From Paddington

Hercule Poirot

• Book: Murder on the Links (1923)
• Book: The Big Four (1927)
• Book: The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
• Book: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
• Book: Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
  • Audiobook, narrated by David Suchet (HarperCollins Publishers 2006): post 1, post 2 and post 3
  • Audiobook, narrated by Kenneth Branagh (HarperCollins Publishers 2017), post 1 and post 2
  • Audiobook, narrated by Dan Stevens (HarperCollins Publishers 2014)
• Book: Three-Act Tragedy (1934)
• Book: Death in the Clouds (1935)
• Book: The ABC Murders (1936)
• Book: Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
• Book: Death on the Nile (1937)
  • Audiobook, narrated by David Suchet (HarperCollins Publishers 2002)
  • Audiobook, narrated by Kenneth Branagh (HarperCollins Publishers 2020)
• Play: Murder on the Nile (1944)
• Book: Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (1938)
• Book: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940)
• Book: Mrs. McGinty’s Dead (1952)
• Book: Hallowe’en Party (1969)
• TV Series: Agatha Christie’s Poirot (ITV 1989 – 2013, starring David Suchet)
  – and individual episodes:
  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles
  • The A.B.C. Murders
  • Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
  • Murder in the Mews

Tommy and Tuppence

• TV Series: Partners in Crime (ITV 1983 – 1984, starring Francesca Annis and James Warwick)

Colonel Race

• Book: The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)
• Book: Death on the Nile (1937)
  • Audiobook, narrated by David Suchet (HarperCollins Publishers 2002)
  • Audiobook, narrated by Kenneth Branagh (HarperCollins Publishers 2020)

Superintendent Battle / Bundle Brent

• Book: The Secret of Chimneys (1925) (Battle & Bundle Brent)
• Book: The Seven Dials Mystery (1929) (Battle & Bundle Brent)
• Book: Towards Zero (1944) (Battle)

Nonseries Books

• Play: The Lie (ca. mid-1920s)
• Short Story: The Witness for the Prosecution (1925 / 1933)
• Book: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (1934)
• Book: Murder Is Easy (1938)
• Book: And Then There Were None (1939) – post 1 and post 2
• Book: The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (1939) – post 1 and post 2
• Radio Play: Butter in a Lordly Dish (1948)
• Book: Crooked House (1949)
• Movie: Crooked House (Fred Films / Stage 6 Films / 20th Century Fox / Sony Pictures 2017, starring Glenn Close)
• Book: Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950)
• Book: They Came to Baghdad (1951)
• Play: The Witness for the Prosecution (1953)
• Movie: Witness for the Prosecution (MGM / United Artists 1957, starring Marlene Dietrich)
• Play: Spider’s Web (1954)
• Movie: The Spider’s Web (Danziger Productions Ltd. 1960, starring Glynis Johns)
• Radio Play: Personal Call (1954)
• Play: The Unexpected Guest (1958)
• Book: Ordeal by Innocence (1958)
• Book: Star Over Bethlehem (1965)
• Book: Endless Night (1967)
  • Full Cast Radio Dramatization (BBC Radio 4 2010, starring Jonathan Forbes and Lizzy Watts)
• Book: A Deadly Affair (2022)

Other Blog Posts

• On Location: Torquay
• On Location: Cholsey (Oxfordshire)

Ann Cleeves

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links

Shetland

• Book: White Nights (2008)
• Book: Red Bones (2009)

Two Rivers

• Book: The Long Call (2019)
• 

Wilkie Collins

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: The Woman in White (1859)
• Short Story: Mrs. Zant and the Ghost (1885)

Arthur Conan Doyle

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Project: 221B Baker Street

Sherlock Holmes

• The Complete Novels and Stories
  • Short Story: The Adventure of the Speckled Band (1892)
  • Book: The Valley of Fear (1915)
  • Short Story: The Sussex Vampire (1924)
• TV Series: Sherlock Holmes (Granada TV / ITV 1984 – 1994, starring Jeremy Brett)

Nonseries Fiction

• Book: Sir Nigel (1906)
• Book: Round the Fire Stories (1908)
  • partially republished as Tales for a Winter’s Night (1989)
  • includes: The Leather Funnel and The Brown Hand
• Short Story: Danger! (1914)

Other Blog Posts

• On Location: 221B Baker Street
• On Location: Dartmoor – the setting of The Hound of the Baskervilles: post 1 and post 2

Colin Dexter

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: The Dead of Jericho (1981)
• Book: The Riddle of the Third Mile (1983)
• Book: The Wench Is Dead (1989)

Charles Dickens

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Novella: A Christmas Carol in Prose (1843)
  • Ignorance and Want: post 1, post 2 and post 3
  • Audiobook and TV movie: A Christmas Carol (TNT / Hallmark Entertainment / Turner Television 1999, starring Patrick Stewart) – post 1 and post 2
  • Etymology: Cracking the Names Behind A Christmas Carol
  • A London Miscellany on Location: “Bah, humbug!” – the setting of A Christmas Carol
• Novella: The Chimes (1844)

William Diehl

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie: Primal Fear (Paramount 1996, starring Edward Norton and Richard Gere)

Isak Dinesen / Karen (Tania) Blixen

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Short Story / Novella: Babette’s Feast (1950, 1958)

Alexandre Dumas (père)

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: Les trois mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers) (1844)
• Companion Literature: Tom Reiss: The Black Count (2012)

Daphne Du Maurier

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: Jamaica Inn (1936)
• Book: Rebecca (1938)
• Book: Frenchman’s Creek (1941)
• Book: My Cousin Rachel (1951)

James Ellroy

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie: L.A. Confidential (Warner Bros. 1997, starring Kevin Spacey)

Patrick Leigh Fermor

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• The Inside Story: W. Stanley Moss: Ill Meet by Moonlight (1950)
• On Location: Anógia

E.M. Forster

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: Howards End (1910)
• Movie: Howards End (Merchant-Ivory 1992, starring Emma Thompson)

Neil Gaiman

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links

Good Omens

• Book: Good Omens (1990) (with Terry Pratchett)
• Full Cast Radio Dramatization: Good Omens (BBC Radio 4 2014, starring Mark Heap and Peter Serafinowicz)
• Screen Adaptation Trailer: Good Omens (Amazon Original, 2019, starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant)
• Screen Adaptation: Good Omens (Amazon Original 2019, starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant)
• Favorite Characters: Good Omens

Other Works

• Short Story: A Study in Emerald (2003) (with Jouni Koponen (illustrator))
• Book: Norse Mythology (2017)

William Goldman

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• The Inside Story: Cary Elwes: As You Wish – Inconceivable Tales From the Making of the Princess Bride (2014)

Caroline Graham

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• On Location: Midsomer County: A bit of English “Litscape”
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3

Graham Greene

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Short Story: The Fallen Idol (aka The Basement Room) (1936)
• Novella: The Third Man (1949)
• Movie: The Third Man (London Film 1949, starring Orson Welles)

John Grisham

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie: The Client (Warner Brothers 1994, starring Susan Sarandon)

Dashiell Hammett

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: The Dain Curse (1928)
• Book: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
• Movie: The Maltese Falcon (Warner Bros. 1941, starring Humphrey Bogart)

Patricia Highsmith

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: Ripley Under Ground (1970)
• Book: Carol (The Price of Salt) (1952)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) – post 1 and post 2
• Movie: Little Lord Fauntleroy (Norman Rosemont Productions 1980, starring Alec Guinness and Ricky Schroeder) – post 1 and post 2

Peter Høeg

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: Fortællinger om natten (Tales of the Night) (1990)
• Book: Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne (Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow / Smilla’s Sense of Snow) (1992)
• Movie: Smilla’s Sense of Snow (Constantin Film / 20th Century Fox 1997, starring Julia Ormond and Daniel Byrne)

Reginald Fleming Johnston

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: Twilight in the Forbidden City (1934)

John Le Carré

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links

George Smiley

• Book: Call for the Dead (1961)
• TV Series: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (BBC 1979-1980, starring Alec Guinness)
• TV Series: Smiley’s People (BBC 1982, starring Alec Guinness)

Nonseries Books

• A Small Town in Germany (1968)

Other Blog Posts

• Guardian Obituary

Harper Lee

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Celebrity Death Match Elimination Tournament: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) versus To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

C.S. Lewis

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Map: Narnia (Disney 2011)

Thomas Mann

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: Dr. Faustus (1947)
• On Location: Buddenbrookhaus and Lübeck, Germany

Olivia Manning

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book Series: The Fortunes of War
  • The Balkan Trilogy
    • The Great Fortune (1960)
    • The Spoilt City (1962)
    • Friends and Heroes (1965)
  • The Levant Trilogy
    • The Danger Tree (1977)
    • The Battle Lost and Won (1978)
    • The Sum of Things (1980) 
• TV Series: The Fortunes of War (BBC 1987, starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson)

Ngaio Marsh

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
  • Autobiography: Black Beech and Honeydew (1965 / 1981)

Roderick Alleyn

• Book: Vintage Murder (1937) – post 1 and post 2
• Book: Artists in Crime (1938) – post 1 and post 2
• Book: Death in a White Tie (1938)
• Book: Overture to Death (1939)
• Book: Death at the Bar (1940)
• Book: Surfeit of Lampreys (aka Death of a Peer) (1940) – post 1 and post 2
• Book: Death and the Dancing Footman (1942) – post 1, post 2 and post 3
• Book: Colour Scheme (1943) – post 1 and post 2
• Book: Died in the Wool (1945)
• Book: Swing, Brother, Swing (aka A Wreath for Rivera) (1949)
• Book: Opening Night (aka Night at the Vulcan) (1951)
• Book: Scales of Justice (1955)
• Book: Off With His Head (aka Death of a Fool) (1956-57) – post 1 and post 2
• Book: Death at the Dolphin (aka Killer Dolphin) (1967)
• Book: Tied Up in Tinsel (1972) – post 1, post 2 and post 3
• Book: Grave Mistake (1978)
• Book: Photo Finish (1980)
• Book: Light Thickens (1982)

Michael Ondaatje

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie: The English Patient (Miramax 1996, starring Ralph Fiennes)

Emmuska Orczy

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links

The Scarlet Pimpernel

• Book: The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
• Book: The Elusive Pimpernel (1908)

Detective Fiction

• Book: The Old Man in the Corner (1908)

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter)

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links

Cadfael

• Project: The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
• Book: A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977) (The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael)
• Book: The Devil’s Novice (1983) The Eighth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael)
• Book: The Raven in the Foregate (1986 (The Twelfth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael)
• Book: The Rose Rent (1986) (The Thirteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael) 
• Book: Brother Cadfael’s Penance (1994) (The Twentieth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael)
• TV Series: Cadfael (ITV 1994 – 1998, starring Derek Jacobi)
• Companion Literature: Ellis Peters: Strongholds and Sanctuaries: The Borderland of England and Wales (1993)
• Companion Literature: Robin Whiteman & Rob Talbot: Cadfael Country: Shropshire & the Welsh Borders (1990)
• Companion Literature: Robin Whiteman: The Cadfael Companion (1991)
• Companion Literature: Robin Whiteman & Rob Talbot: Brother Cadfael’s Herb Garden (1996)
• On Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and the Welsh Borderland

Felse Investigations

• Book: Fallen into the Pit (1951)

Terry Pratchett

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Project: Narrativium: Where the Falling Angel Meets the Rising Ape

Discworld

• Book: The Colour of Magic (1983)
• Book: The Light Fantastic (1986)
• Book: Equal Rites (1987)
• Book: Mort (1987)
• Book: Sourcery (1988)
• Book: Wyrd Sisters (1988) – post 1 and post 2
• Book: Pyramids (1989)
• Book: Guards! Guards! (1989)
• Book: Eric (1990)
• Book: Moving Pictures (1990)
• Book: Men at Arms (1993)
• Book: Feet of Clay (1996)
• Book: Hogfather (1996) – post 1, post 2, post 3, post 4, post 5, post 6, post 7, post 8, post 9, post 10 and post 11
• Book: Carpe Jugulum (1998)
• Book: Monstrous Regiment (2003)
• Book: The Science of Discworld (1999) (with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen)
• Favorite Subseries World: Discworld
• Favorite Characters: Discworld

Good Omens

• Book: Good Omens (1990) (with Neil Gaiman)
• Full Cast Radio Dramatization: Good Omens (BBC Radio 4 2014, starring Mark Heap and Peter Serafinowicz)
• Screen Adaptation Trailer: Good Omens (Amazon Original, 2019, starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant)
• Screen Adaptation: Good Omens (Amazon Original 2019, starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant) – post 1 and post 2
• Favorite Characters: Good Omens

Sr. Helen Prejean

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie: Dead Man Walking (PolyGram 1995, starring Susan Sarandon)

Ian Rankin

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links

Inspector Rebus

• Omnibus Edition: Rebus: The Early Years (1999)
  • Knots and Crosses (1987) – post 1 and post 2
  • Hide and Seek (1990)
  • Tooth and Nail (1992)
• Book: Even Dogs in the Wild (2015)
• Book: A Song for the Dark Times (2020)
• Playlist:  A Playlist for Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus Series
• On Location: Edinburgh

Other Books

• Omnibus Edition: The Jack Harvey Thrillers (2000)
  • Witch Hunt (1993)
  • Bleeding Hearts (1994)
  • Blood Hund (1995)

Anne Rice

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie: Interview With the Vampire (Geffen Pictures 1994, starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise)

J.K. Rowling

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book Series: Harry Potter
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s / The Philosopher’s Stone
    • A Cautionary Word on Cats
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • On Location: Hogwarts Great Hall (Christchurch College Hall, Oxford)
  • Other Related Posts:
    • Favorite Sports Teams and Pennants (Quidditch)
    • Favorite Trolls and Gnomes (Dobby)
    • Halloween Bingo 2019 PreParty — Question for 08/06 (Day 6): Favorite Seasonal Covers — the Harry Potter Edition
• Book Series: Cormoran Strike (writing as Robert Galbraith)
  • The Cuckoo’s Calling
  • The Silkworm
  • Career of Evil
  • Lethal White

George Sand

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie: Impromptu (C.L.G. Films / Sovereign Pictures 1991, starring Judy Davis, Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson)

Dorothy L. Sayers

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Project: As My Wimsey Takes Me

Lord Peter Wimsey

• Book: Whose Body? (1923)
  • Audiobook narrated by Mark Meadows (Dreamscape Media 2019)
• Book Clouds of Witness (1926)
• Book: Unnatural Death (1927)
• Book: The Five Red Herrings (1931)
• Book: Murder Must Advertise (1933)
  • Full Cast Radio Dramatization (BBC Radio 4 2006, starring Ian Carmichael)
• Book: Strong Poison (1930)
• Book: Gaudy Night (1935)
• Play: Busman’s Honeymoon (1937)
• Book: Thrones, Dominations (1998; completed by Jill Paton Walsh)

Other Writings

• Play: Love All (1940)
• Address: The Lost Tools of Learning (1947)

Other Blog Posts

• On Location: London

William Shakespeare

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
  • Quick Facts, compiled on the occasion of Shakespeare’s 450th birthday
• Project: Measure for Measure

The Complete Works

• Book: The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, gen. eds. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK, 1986 / 2005)
• TV Series: The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (BBC 1978 – 1985, starring, inter alia, Derek Jacobi)

Individual Works

• Book: 154 Sonnets (1593-1603)
• Play: The Tragedy of Richard III (1592-1594)
• Movie: Richard III (British Screen Productions / United Artists 1995, starring Ian McKellen)
• Play: Much Ado About Nothing (1598-1599)
• Movie: Much Ado About Nothing (Renaissance Films / BBC / American Playhouse Theatrical Films 1993, starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson)
• Play: The Life and Death of King Richard II (1595)
• Play: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1600-1601)
• Play: Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1602)

Other Blog Posts

• Shakespeare Meets Star Wars: Ian Doescher: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars – Verily, a New Hope (2013)
• On the Road: Gregory Doran & Antony Sher: Woza Shakespeare – Titus Andronicus in South Africa (1996)
• Open Air Theatre: Macbeth (The Handlebards, The Dell, Stratford-upon-Avon, June 14, 2014)
• On Location: Stratford-upon-Avon – post 1 and post 2
  • William Shakespeare’s Epitaph
• On Location: London, Globe Theatre
• On Location: Glamis and Cawdor – Macbeth
• On Location: Kronborg Castle, Helsingør (“Elsinore”) – Hamlet
• Companion Literature: Jackie Bennett & Andrew Lawson: Shakespeare’s Gardens (2016)
• Companion Literature: Dennis McCarthy & June Schlueter: “A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels” by George North – A Newly Uncovered Manuscript Source for Shakespeare’s Plays (2018)
• Companion Literature: Kathryn Harkup: Death by Shakespeare (2020)
• Companion Literature: Ngaio Marsh: Black Beech and Honeydew (1965 / 1981)
• Shakespeare elsewhere: Ngaio Marsh: Death at the Dolphin (aka Killer Dolphin) (1967)
• Shakespeare elsewhere: Ngaio Marsh: Light Thickens (1982)
• Shakespeare elsewhere: Martha Grimes: The Dirty Duck (1984)
• Video: Here’s What Shakespeare’s Plays Sounded Like With Their Original English Accent
• Video: Macbeth in Scots
• Adaptations: British Council: #ShakespeareNoFilter
• Adaptations: Tessa Gratton: The Queens of Innis Lear
• 10 Quotes for New Year’s Eve

John Steinbeck

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
• Movie: The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Fox 1940, starring Henry Fonda)
• Book: The Moon Is Down (1942)
• Book: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
• Book: Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962)
• Omnibus Edition: Library of America: Novels, 1942 – 1952 (2002)
  • The Moon Is Down (1942)
  • Cannery Row (1945)
  • The Pearl (1947)
  • East of Eden (1952)
• On Location: Cannery Row (Monterey, CA)

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
  • Audiobook narrated by Christopher Lee (2009)
• On Location: Edinburgh

Bram Stoker

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Full Cast Radio Dramatization: Dracula (BBC / Penguin Books UK 2006, starring Tom Hiddleston and David Suchet)
• On Location: Whitby (Yorkshire)

J.R.R. Tolkien

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: The Hobbit (1937)
  • Audiobook narrated by Andy Serkis (2020)
• Book: The Lord of the Rings (1954)
  • Audiobook trilogy narrated by Andy Serkis (2021)
• Supplementary reading: Karen Wynn Fonstad: The Atlas of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth (1981)
• Map: Thror’s Map of the Lonely Mountain (Christopher Tolkien, 1954) — the setting of The Hobbit

Mark Twain

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Celebrity Death Match Elimination Tournament: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) versus To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

Joan D. Vinge

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie Novelization: Ladyhawke (1985)

Edith Wharton

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: The Age of Innocence (1920)
• Movie: The Age of Innocence (Columbia Pictures 1993, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder and Daniel Day-Lewis)
• Audiobook: Ghosts: Edith Wharton’s Gothic Tales (BMA Studios / The Mount Press 2011, various narrators)

Ethel Lina White

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book: The Spiral Staircase (aka Some Must Watch) (1933)
• Book: The Lady Vanishes (aka The Wheel Spins) (1936)

Oscar Wilde

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Short Story: The Canterville Ghost (1887)
• Short Story: The Model Millionaire (1887)
• Book: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
• Play: A Woman of No Importance (1893)
• Play: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Tennessee Williams

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Omnibus Edition: Library of America: Plays 1937 – 1955 (2000)
  Includes, inter alia:
  • Spring Storm (1938)
  • Not About Nightingales (1938)
  • Battle of Angels (1940)
  • The Glass Menagerie (1944)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
  • 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1945 / 1953):
    • 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
    • The Lady of Larkspur Lotion
    • Something Unspoken
    • This Property Is Condemned
    • [Et al.]
• Movie: A Streetcar Named Desire (Warner Bros. 1951, starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando)

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