Download or read book Singer Island and Ernest Hemingway Volume One written by No Sweat and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book American Literature on Stage and Screen written by Thomas S. Hischak and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 525 notable works of 19th and 20th century American fiction in this reference book have many stage, movie, television, and video adaptations. Each literary work is described and then every adaptation is examined with a discussion of how accurate the version is and how well it succeeds in conveying the spirit of the original in a different medium. In addition to famous novels and short stories by authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Willa Cather, many bestsellers, mysteries, children's books, young adult books, horror novels, science fiction, detective stories, and sensational potboilers from the past two centuries are examined.

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