On Page and Screen

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Bringing together great literature and its equally great screen adaptations:

 

Jane Austen

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book review: Mansfield Park (1814)
• Screenplay review: Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson, 1995)
• Movie review: Sense and Sensibility (Columbia Pictures 1995, starring Emma Thompson)
• Project: By a Lady …

 

John Berendt

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie review: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Warner Bros. 1997, starring Kevin Spacey)

 

Raymond Chandler

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie review: The Big Sleep (Warner Bros. 1946, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall)

 

Agatha Christie

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book review: Miss Marple – The Complete Short Stories
• Book review: The Thirteen Problems
• Book review: Miss Marple’s Final Cases
• TV series review: Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple (BBC 1984 – 1992, starring Joan Hickson)
  – and individual episodes:
  • The Body in the Library
  • A Murder Is Announced
  • A Pocketful of Rye
  • The Murder at the Vicarage
  • Nemesis
  • 4:50 From Paddington
• Audiobook review: Murder on the Orient Express (read by David Suchet)
• Book review: Hallowe’en Party
• TV series review: Agatha Christie’s Poirot (ITV 1989 – 2013, starring David Suchet)
  – and individual episodes:
  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles
  • The A.B.C. Murders
  • Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
• TV series review: Partners in Crime (ITV 1983 – 1984)
• Book review: And Then There Were None
• Movie review: Witness for the Prosecution (MGM / United Artists 1957, starring Marlene Dietrich)
• Project: Little Grey Cells: St. Mary Mead & Elsewhere

 

Charles Dickens

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Audiobook and TV movie review: A Christmas Carol (starring Patrick Stewart)
• Etymology: Cracking the Names Behind A Christmas Carol

 

William Diehl

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie review: Primal Fear (Paramount 1996)

 

Arthur Conan Doyle

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book review: The Valley of Fear
• Short story review: The Speckled Band
• Short story review: The Sussex Vampire
• TV series review: Sherlock Holmes (Granada TV / ITV 1984 – 1994, starring Jeremy Brett)
• On location: Dartmoor – the setting of The Hound of the Baskervilles
• Project: 221B Baker Street

 

James Ellroy

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie review: L.A. Confidential (Warner Bros. 1997, starring Kevin Spacey)

 

E.M. Forster

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book review: Howards End (1910)
• Movie review: Howards End (Merchant-Ivory 1992, starring Emma Thompson)

 

John Grisham

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie review: The Client (Warner Brothers 1994, starring Susan Sarandon)

 

Dashiell Hammett

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie review: The Maltese Falcon (Warner Bros. 1941, starring Humphrey Bogart)

 

Peter Høeg

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book review: Fortællinger om natten (Tales of the Night) (1990)
• Movie review: Smilla’s Sense of Snow (Constantin Film / 20th Century Fox 1997)

 

Michael Ondaatje

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie review: The English Patient (Miramax 1996)

 

Ellis Peters

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book review: A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977) (The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael)
• Book review: Brother Cadfael’s Penance (1994) (The Twentieth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael)
• TV series review: Cadfael (ITV 1994 – 1998, starring Derek Jacobi)

 

Sister Helen Prejean

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie review: Dead Man Walking (PolyGram 1995, starring Susan Sarandon)

 

Anne Rice

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie review: Interview With the Vampire (Geffen Pictures 1994)

 

George Sand

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Movie review: Impromptu (C.L.G. Films / Sovereign Pictures 1991)

 

William Shakespeare

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book review: The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, gen. eds. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK, 1986 / 2005)
• Book review: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1600-1601)
• Book review: 154 Sonnets (1593-1603)
• TV series review: The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (BBC 1978 – 1985, starring, inter alia, Derek Jacobi)
• Movie review: Richard III (British Screen Productions / United Artists 1995, starring Ian McKellen)
• Movie review: Much Ado About Nothing (Renaissance Films / BBC / American Playhouse Theatrical Films 1993, starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson)
• Video: Here’s What Shakespeare’s Plays Sounded Like With Their Original English Accent
• Project: Measure for Measure

 

John Steinbeck

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book review: Library of America: Novels, 1942 – 1952 (2002)
• Movie review: The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Fox 1940)

 

Edith Wharton

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book review: The Age of Innocence (1920)
• Movie review: The Age of Innocence (Columbia Pictures 1993)

 

Tennessee Williams

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
• Book review: Library of America: Plays 1937 – 1955 (2000)
• Movie review: A Streetcar Named Desire (Warner Bros. 1951)