Classic Lit

Classic Lit

Dickens On Film

The Pickwick Papers  (85,52)

Oliver Twist  (22,48,68,85.97,99,2005)

Nicholas Nickleby  (1947.1977,2001,2002)

The Old Curiosity Shop 

(79, 95, 2007)

Dombey and Son  (1983)

David Copperfield  (35, 74,99)

Bleak House  (1985,2005)

Hard Times (Masterpiece Theatre) (1994)

Little Dorrit  (1988, 2008)

A Tale of Two Cities  (1935,  1958)  

Great Expectations (1946)

Our Mutual Friend (1998)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)

Some Notable Christmas Carols

Scrooge (1935)

A Christmas Carol (1938)

A Christmas Carol (1951)

Mr. Maggo’s Christmas Carol (1964)

Scrooge (1970) Albert Finney

A Christmas Carol (1971)

The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)

An American Christmas Carol (1979) Henry Winkler

Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983)

A Christmas Carol (1984)  George C. Scott

Scrooged (1988)

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

A Christmas Carol  (1999) w/ Patrick Stewart

A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004) Kelsey Grammer

Chasing Christmas (2005) Tom Arnold

A Christmas Carol   (2009)

 Jim Carey

Non-Adventure Daniel Defoe

  1659– 1731

Moll Flanders (A-III) (PG-13)( 1996)

Henry Fielding    1707 – 1754

Tom Jones (1963)

Jane Austin  ( 1775 – 1817)

Lost in Austen 2008

Sense and Sensibility

 (1971  1981 1995 2008)

Pride and Prejudice

(1940, 1980, 1995, 2005)

Emma    (1972, 1996, 2009)

Mansfield Park (1983, 1999, 2007)

Northanger Abbey (2007)

Persuasion   (1971, 1995, 2007)

James Fenimore Cooper

(1789 –   1851)

The Last of the Mohicans

( 20, 32, 57, 71,  92)

Victor Hugo  (1802 –   1885)

Les Misérables

( 35, 52,78,, 95, 98 ,2010)

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame  (1923 ,1939,1956,1996,1982,1986)

Nathaniel Hawthorne  (1804 –  1864)

 The House of Seven Gables (1940)

The Scarlett Letter (34, 75, 99)

 William Makepeace Thackeray

 (1811 –1863)

Vanity Fair (32.98,2004)

H. Beecher Stowe (1811 –1896)

 Uncle Tom's Cabin   (1927)

Charlotte Brontë,   (1816 –1855)

Jane Eyre (1934: 1943: 1970: 1973: 1983 1996: 1997 2006 2011)

Emily Brontë,   (1818 –1848)

Wuthering Heights  (39 70 92 2009)

Herman Melville 1819 –1891

Moby Dick  (56,78,98,2010)

Billy Budd   (1962)

Bartleby. (1970, 2001)  

Fyodor Dostoevsky  1821 –   1881

Crime and Punishment 

(1970 , 1979 2002)

The Idiot   (1951, 2003)

The Brothers Karamazov 

(1958)  Yul Brynner)

Wilkie Collins  1824-1889

The Moonstone (1934,1972)

The Woman in White (1948, 1997)

Leo Tolstoy (1828 –1910 )

War and Peace (1956, 1965, 2004)

Anna Karenina

(1935, 1948, 1961, 1977, 2000)

Henry James (1843 –1916)

The Innocents  (1961)

The Turn of the Screw (1999)

Other Novels Turned Film

The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck (1937)

The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)

Hawaii by James Michener (1966)

The Hustler by Walter Tevis (1961)

Love Story by  Erich Segal  (1970)

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald  (1974, 2000)

Plays That Flick

A Doll's House (1918, 1922, 1943, 1959, 1973 ,1992)

The Importance of Being Earnest. (1952, 2002)

Our Town (1940) (A-I)

Remember Mama (1948) (A-I)

Ernest Hemmingway  (1899 –1961)

A Farewell to Arms (1932,1957)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

To Have and Have Not (1944)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)

The Sun Also Rises (1957)

The Old Man and the Sea

(1958 1990)

Islands in the Stream (1977)

The Torrents of Spring (1989)

John Steinbeck  ( 1902 – 1968)

Of Mice and Men 1939)—

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)—

The Forgotten Village (1941)—

Tortilla Flat (1942)—

The Moon is Down (1943)

Lifeboat (1944)—

A Medal for Benny (1944)—

The Red Pony (1949)—

Viva Zapata!  (1952)—

The Wayward Bus (1957)—

Cannery Row (1982)—

Of Mice and Men (1992)—

The Playwrights

Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 –1989)

Beckett on Film (2003)

Tennessee Williams  (1911 –1983)

 The Glass Menagerie

(1950 ,1973 , 1987)

A Streetcar Named Desire  (1951)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Arthur Miller (1915 –2005)

The Misfits. (1961)

Death of a Salesman. (1966,1985)

The Crucible. (1996)

Eugene O'Neill  (1888 –1953)

Long Day's Journey Into Night.

(1962 ,1973)

The Iceman Cometh. (1960. 1973)