And here is a list of all the topics for the rest of the year.
Wroblewski, David "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" - 2008
And Shakespeare #3:
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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.
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
Dickens, Charles "David Copperfield" - 1850
Another one of my favourite stories in a modern setting.
Austen, Jane "Emma" - 1816 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen)
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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Have ou read this one?
ReplyDeleteI thought it was so well done:
https://wordsandpeace.com/2014/10/03/book-review-and-giveaway-bitter-greens-i-love-france-113/
I htink I recently read another retelling, but can't find it!!
Sounds interesting, Emma. No, I have never read that retelling. And you probably are right that Rapunzel might have been a French fairy tale first. A lot of the fairy tales wandered across Europe, you find many similar stories in all the countries. Cinderella is another example.
DeleteI've never read Hag-Seed, but I have both seen and read The Tempest. That McCall Smith book is one I want to read. :D
ReplyDeleteI was a little disappointed ty Emma, as you can see in my review. But I had to mention it here because it is a modern retelling. I don't read that many like that.
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