List of fictional works using settings created by other artists

This is a partial list of works of fiction that are written within, or derived from, the framework of another work of fiction by another author. This list does not include franchised book series, which are typically works licensed by the publisher of the original work to use its settings and characters. This list thus excludes such works as Star Trek and Star Wars novels. Works on this list usually have the same setting and time period, and many of the same characters, but are told from a different perspective.

List

Title Author Parallels by
The Looking Glass Wars Frank Beddor Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
The Holder of the World Bharati Mukherjee The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gertrude and Claudius John Updike Hamlet William Shakespeare
A Barnstormer in Oz Philip José Farmer The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum
Wicked Gregory Maguire The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and 1939 film version L. Frank Baum
Wide Sargasso Sea[1] Jean Rhys Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
The Wind Done Gone[2] Alice Randall Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Jane Fairfax Joan Aiken Emma Jane Austen
March[3] Geraldine Brooks Little Women Louisa May Alcott
The Penelopiad Margaret Atwood The Odyssey Homer
Mary Reilly Valerie Martin The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
Eaters of the Dead Michael Crichton Beowulf
Grendel John Gardner Beowulf
Jack Maggs Peter Carey Great Expectations Charles Dickens
The Hours Michael Cunningham Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
Foe J. M. Coetzee Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
The Other Log of Phileas Fogg Philip José Farmer Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne
Finn Jon Clinch Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard Hamlet William Shakespeare
Fool Christopher Moore King Lear William Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Seth Grahame-Smith Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Imoinda or She Who Will Lose Her Name Joan Anim-Addo Oroonoko Aphra Behn
"The Problem of Susan" Neil Gaiman The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis
Was Geoff Ryman The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and 1939 film version L. Frank Baum
Lavinia Ursula K. Le Guin Aeneid Virgil
Long John Silver Bjorn Larsson Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
The Last Ringbearer[4] Kirill Eskov Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien

See also

References

  1. ^ Kate. "''Wide Sargasso Sea and its literary and socio-historic contexts''". Eng.fju.edu.tw. http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/caribbean/rhys_eyre.html#Jane. Retrieved 2011-01-02. 
  2. ^ "New Georgia Encyclopedia: The Wind Done Gone". Georgiaencyclopedia.org. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-776. Retrieved 2011-01-02. 
  3. ^ "BKMT Reading Guides: March: A Novel". Bookmovement.com. 2005-03-03. http://www.bookmovement.com/app/readingguide/view.php?readingGuideID=905. Retrieved 2011-01-02. 
  4. ^ Laura Miller, Middle-earth according to Mordor, 15 February 2011.