Wuthering Heights and a Werewolf...and a Zombie too by Ralph S. King

Originally titled “The Bar Sinister” this sequel to “Pride and Prejudice” picks up after the Darcy’s wedding, but includes flashbacks to their earlier courtship. Sequel to “Pride and Prejudice”, starting immediately after the Darcy’s wedding. Darcy Takes a Wife: Pride and Prejudice Continues She escapes through the Pool of Tears just to end up in Victorian London where she runs into a writer who retells her tale as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.

Dodgson)Īlyss Heart is a real girl, and heir to the throne when her Aunt Redd goes crazy and tries to kill her. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” Boggie Frito Bugger and a band of misfits including Goodgulf Grayteeth and Arrowfoot or Arrowshirt must carry the Great Ring to Fordor and throw it into the Zazu Pits to save Lower Middle Earth. “The Odyssey” as told by Penelope and the 12 maids that were killed upon the return of Odysseus. Six of Shakespeare’s best-known plays (Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, and Othello) are re-told with hilarious twists. Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, and Othello Retelling of “Emma” from Jane Fairfax’s point of view – Emma’s rival in Austen’s original novel. Jane Fairfax: The Secret History of the Second Heroine in Jane Austen’s “Emma” If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department.

Some titles not owned by the libraries are included in this list due to their classic nature, or their position as part of a series. Pure sequels, by other authors, either authorized or unauthorized, are a slightly different category of reading, and one which we may create a separate booklist for in the future!Īll books in this list which are owned by Lincoln City Libraries are hotlinked to their entries in our library catalog, so that you may check on their current availability. Though this book went on to inspire two sequels, and many similar works by other authors in the past few years, these titles are just the latest in a long tradition of “Classics With a Twist.”This list focuses primarily on the novels which retell the well-known stories, but with changes or different viewpoints. One of the most well-known examples of this literary art form would probably be Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Seth Grahame-Smith, which takes Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice from 1813, throws in some undead characters and retells the story…with a twist. A recent trend in publishing in the early 21st century has been the release of books that serve as retellings or reimaginings of classic works of fiction, or parodies of such well-known works.

Wuthering Heights and a Werewolf...and a Zombie too by Ralph S. King