Adaptations

An adaptation can be anything from a book based on a movie or the retelling of a classic tale. It is when a story is adapted from another story form or source. Not merely a remake in all cases, some stories are only loosely adapted from original sources or legends.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Adaptations"

The Weekend Away
The Twisted Ones: Five Nights at Freddy’s (Five Nights at Freddy’s Graphic Novel #2) (2)
Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic Novel
The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Dante's Inferno: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Evil Thing: A Villains Graphic Novel (Villains Graphic Novels #1)
Frankenstein
Ghostbusters: The Original Novelizations of Ghostbusters 1 and 2 (Ghostbusters #1)
Alien: The Original Screenplay
Catwoman: Soulstealer (DC Icons Graphic Novels)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
The Fault in Our Stars
Gone Girl
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Pride and Prejudice
Daisy Jones & The Six
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
The Great Gatsby
The Handmaid's Tale
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
The Book Thief
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysBrontë’s Mistress by Finola AustinThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeAlways Emily by Michaela MacCollThe Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan
Brontës in Fiction
89 books — 50 voters
A Little Princess by Tania ZamorskyThe Secret Garden by Martha Hailey DuBoseAnne of Green Gables by Kathleen OlmsteadLittle Women by Deanna McFaddenHeidi by Lisa Church
Classic Starts Series
55 books — 34 voters

Cinder by Marissa MeyerThrone of Glass by Sarah J. MaasRed Queen by Victoria AveyardThe Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle HodkinHalf-Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout
YA Books You Want To Become Movies
176 books — 25 voters



When we love something, we always want more of it, whether it’s good for us or not. This is as true of ice cream and French fries as it is of great books. It’s only natural to wish for more time with our favorite characters, but an essential part of what makes us fall in love with a book is the fact that it ends (something it wouldn’t hurt to remind the heads of Hollywood studios). When there can be no more of something, it makes what already exists more precious and perfect.
Emily Uecker

One lesson is that to be second is not to be secondary or inferior; likewise, to be first is not to be originary or authoritative. Yet, as we shall see, disparaging opinions on adaptation as a secondary mode—belated and therefore derivative—persist. One aim of this book is to challenge that denigration.
Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Adaptation

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