Top 5 Tuesday ~ Classic Retellings

Top Five Tuesday was originally created by Shanah @ Bionic Book Worm, but is now hosted by Meeghan @ Meeghan Reads. To participate, link your post back to Meeghan’s blog or leave a comment on her weekly post. I found this on Davida's Page @ The Chocolate Lady.

And here is a list of all the topics for the rest of the year.

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This week’s topic is Classic Retellings 

I absolutely love classics and am not always happy when someone uses someone else's idea for a story. But here we have some great novels where a story from the past was set in our times.

Atwood, Margaret "Hag-Seed. The Tempest Retold" - 2016

I have never read The Tempest by William Shakespeare but know the story. This is Margaret Atwood's view.

Kingsolver, Barbara "Demon Copperhead" - 2022

One of my favourite contemporary authors retells one of my favourite classics:
Dickens, Charles "David Copperfield" - 1850

McCall Smith, Alexander "Emma. A Modern Retelling" - 2015

Another one of my favourite stories in a modern setting.

Austen, Jane "Emma" - 1816 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen)

Smiley, Jane "A Thousand Acres" - 1991

Another Shakespeare play transported: King Lear.

Wroblewski, David "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" - 2008
And Shakespeare #3:

Shakespeare, William "Hamlet" - 1599/1602 

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📖 Happy Reading! 📖

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