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))

    4 stars

  2. Grendel by 

    4 stars

    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 

    4 stars

    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 

    4 stars

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

  5. Longbourn by 

    4 stars

    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 

    4 stars

    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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