Books that add a parallel narrative to another book Public

Created and curated by James

Some books are new views of existing literature, they give you a second interpretation through the eyes of another character sometimes via a different author.

  1. The Penelopiad by  ((Ulverscroft Large Print Series))

  2. Grendel by 

    The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of …

  3. Ender's Shadow (Ender's Shadow, #1) by 

    When Bean is sent to Battle School, he is constantly compared to the great Ender Wiggin, but Bean knows things …

  4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by 

    Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told …

  5. Longbourn by 

    A novel whose principal characters are the servants in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice.

    Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her …

  6. Julia: A Novel by 

    An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell’s 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith’s lover, Julia, …

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