Thursday, February 9, 2012

love stories in book and film...

did you know that some of your favorite movies began as books?  here are a few to try:

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain

The Girl with the Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier

Gigi (novella) - Colette

Prizzi’s Honor - Robert Condon

The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy

Must Love Dogs - Claire Cook

Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote

Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

Out of Africa - Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

Camille (book: La Dame aux Camelias) - Alexandre Dumas

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The African Queen - C.S. Forester            

Howard’s End - E.M. Forster

A Room With A View - E.M. Forster

Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

Princess Bride - William Goldman

To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

The King and I - Anna Leonowens
 
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

What Dreams May Come - Richard Matheson

Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
 
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternack

Love Story - Erich Segal

Dear John - Nicholas Sparks

The Last Song - Nicholas Sparks

The Lucky One - Nicholas Sparks

Message in a Bottle - Nicholas Sparks

Nights in Rodanthe - Nicholas Sparks

The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks

A Walk to Remembered - Nicholas Sparks

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

The Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller

The Graduate - Charles Webb