‘Monkey: Journey To The West,’ a nine-act opera adaptation performed at the Chatelet Theater in France.
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There is a long tradition in China of associating monkeys with the mind – symbolism that has helped the novel’s most memorable character, the Monkey King, find universal resonance.
Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham in a 2012 adaptation of Great Expectations.
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It is one of Dickens’ best loved novels and an exposé of the class system, but the book’s depiction of women has proved divisive.
An online audience is reading the vampire novel for the first time, en masse.
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A newsletter sends out chronological snippets from the 125-year-old novel ‘Dracula.’ Fans on the internet go wild.
Jane Austen based on a portrait by her sister Cassandra.
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When her contemporaries were engaging with European themes in their novels, Austen remained rooted in her home country.