Results: A Modern Twist To An Old Classic
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The basis for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's New York Times bestseller Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker lens. Wicked is a powerful re-telling of the classic The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum, but from the viewpoint of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, we learn here wasn't nearly as Wicked as we imagined. The book was so successful, three more sequels were released, all telling the story from another character's point of view. Have you read either book?
I've read The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz
27%
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464 votes
I've read Wicked
9%
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160 votes
I've read some of Maguire's sequels to Wicked
4%
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73 votes
None of the above
80%
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1378 votes
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Jane Austin classics have long been a favorite for retelling. In fact, the enduring popularity of her novels has sparked the Jane Austen Project, a retelling of her six most famous novels by some of the biggest writers of our time. Have you read any of these Jane Austin retelling novels?
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding -- Pride and Prejudice
11%
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191 votes
Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid -- Northanger Abbey
3%
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55 votes
Emma: A Modern Retelling by Alexander McCall Smith -- Emma
5%
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78 votes
Jane of Austin: A Novel of Sweet Tea and Sensibility by Hillary Manton Lodge -- Sense and Sensibility
5%
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86 votes
Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope -- Sense and Sensibility
7%
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122 votes
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfield -- Pride and Prejudice
2%
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33 votes
Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star by Heather Lynn Rigaud -- Pride and Prejudice
1%
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22 votes
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund-- Persuasion
2%
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26 votes
The Secret Diary of Lizzie BennetThe Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Bernie Su, Kate Rorick -- This Pride and Prejudice
2%
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36 votes
Second Chances: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion by Sarah Price -- Persuasion
2%
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28 votes
Unleashing Mr. Darcy by Teri Wilson -- Pride and Prejudice --
2%
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36 votes
Austenland by Shannon Hale -- Pride and Prejudice
1%
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23 votes
The Dashwood Sisters Tell All by Beth Pattillo -- Sense and Sensibility
1%
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21 votes
Persuaded by Misty Dawn Pulsipher -- Persuasion
1%
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24 votes
Persuading Annie by Melissa Nathan -- Persuasion
1%
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18 votes
None of them
47%
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821 votes
I have never even read a Jane Austin novel
47%
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807 votes
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Finally, from this list, select the retellings of these classic novels that you have read (if your favorite is not here, please feel free to leave the name in the comments section):
The Sixteenth of June by Maya Lang -- Ulysses by James Joyce
2%
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31 votes
The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney -- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7%
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123 votes
Going Bovine by Libba Bray -- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
3%
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46 votes
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi - -Snow White by The Brothers Grimm
2%
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33 votes
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesy -- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
3%
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47 votes
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman -- Paradise Lost by John Milton
3%
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49 votes
New Girl by Paige Harbison -- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
1%
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25 votes
The Hours by Michael Cunningham -- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
2%
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34 votes
On Beauty by Zadie Smith -- Howard's End by E.M. Forster
2%
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31 votes
Great by Sara Benincasa -- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2%
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41 votes
Dorian, an Imitation by Will Self -- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
2%
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43 votes
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley -- King Lear by William Shakespeare
3%
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46 votes
Solsbury Hill by Susan M. Wyler -- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
1%
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24 votes
The Innocents by Francesca Segal -- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1%
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21 votes
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood -- The Odyssey by Homer
1%
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23 votes
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan -- Greek Myths
3%
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60 votes
None
91%
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1581 votes
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