Authors and their Works

Some authors who have had their novels made into films or miniseries:

ALEXANDRE DUMAS
The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, La Reine Margot

ANTHONY TROLLOPE
The Way We Live Now, He Knew He Was Right, The Pallisers, The Barchester Chronicles

BRONTE SISTERS
Jane Eyre, Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights

CATHERINE COOKSON
The Fifteen Streets, The Black Velvet Gown, The Cinder Path, The Dwelling Place, The Tide of Life, The Gambling Man, The Mallens, The Black Candle, The Man Who Cried, The Glass Virgin, The Girl, The Moth, The Rag Nymph, The Wingless Bird, Colour Blind, The Round Tower, Tilly Trotter, A Dinner of Herbs [read more]

CHARLES DICKENS
Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop, Our Mutual Friend, Martin Chuzzlewit, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist

EDITH WHARTON
The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers, House of Mirth, Ethan Frome

ELIZABETH GASKELL
North and South, Wives and Daughters, Cranford

GEORGE ELIOT
Daniel Deronda, Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede

HENRY JAMES
Portrait of a Lady, Wings of the Dove, Washington Square, Golden Bowl, The Bostonians, The Europeans, The Heiress (same story as Washington Square)

JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice,Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger abbey and Persuasion

JOHN GALSWORTHY
Forsyte Saga, A Summer Story

LUCY MAUDE MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables, Road to Avonlea, Emily of New Moon, Lantern Hill

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women, Little Men, The Inheritance, An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving, An Old Fashioned Christmas

OSCAR WILDE
Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance

THOMAS HARDY
Jude, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Under the Greenwood Tree, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Claim, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders, The Scarlet Tunic, The Return of the Native, The Day after the Fair, The Withered Arm

VICTOR HUGO
Les Miserables, Hunchback of Notre Dame (Notre Dame de Paris)

WILKIE COLLINS
The Woman in White, The Moonstone



Lesser known...

ANN HOWARD CREEL -Magic of Ordinary Days

AUDREY NIFFENEGGER -The Time Traveller's Wife

ELIZABETH GOUDGE -The Little White Horse (The Secret of Moonacre)

ELIZABETH VON ARNIM -Enchanted April

JOHN BUCHAN -The 39 Steps

LUCY M. BOSTON -Children of Green Knowe (From Time to Time)

MORRIS WEST -The Shoes of the Fisherman