Parallel novel

Parallel novel

A parallel novel is a work of fiction that exists within, or derives from, the framework of another work of fiction by another author. They usually have the same setting and time period, and many of the same characters, but are told from a different perspective.

Examples include:
*"The Holder of the World" by Bharati Mukherjee (parallels "The Scarlet Letter")
*"Was" by Geoff Ryman (parallels The Wizard of Oz books by L. Frank Baum)
*"" [http://www.bordersstores.com/search/title_detail.jsp?id=2285544&ref=list+b2g3books4] by Gregory Maguire (parallels The Wizard of Oz books by L. Frank Baum and 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz")
*"Wide Sargasso Sea" [http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/caribbean/rhys_eyre.html#Jane] by Jean Rhys (parallels "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë)
*"Till We Have Faces" [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0156904365/] by C. S. Lewis (parallels Cupid and Psyche in Metamorphoses by Lucius Apuleius)
*"The Wind Done Gone" [http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-776] by Alice Randall (parallels "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell)
*"Ender's Shadow" [http://www.hatrack.com/osc/books/endersshadow/endersshadow.shtml] by Orson Scott Card (parallels "Ender's Game" by the same author)
*"Jane Fairfax" [http://www.amazon.de/dp/product-description/0575400420] by Joan Aiken (parallels "Emma" by Jane Austen)
*"March" [http://www.bookmovement.com/app/readingguide/view.php?readingGuideID=905] by Geraldine Brooks (parallels "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott)
*"The Penelopiad" by Margaret Atwood (parallels "The Odyssey" by Homer)
*""Mary Reilly"" by Valerie Martin (parallels "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson)
*""Grendel"" by John Gardner (parallels Beowulf)
*"Jack Maggs" by Peter Carey (parallels "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens)
*"The Hours" by Michael Cunningham (parallels "Mrs Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf)
*""Foe"" by J. M. Coetzee (parallels "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe)
*"I, Jedi" by Michael A. Stackpole (parallels "The Jedi Academy Trilogy" by Kevin J. Anderson)

Although neither work is a novel, another example of parallel literature is "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" by Tom Stoppard, which parallels "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare. Also, the "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" by Don Rosa is a comic book series that parallels the stories of Carl Barks that feature Scrooge McDuck.


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