Showing posts with label love stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love stories. Show all posts

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