Movie Books
Literary works that have been adapted into or are associated with film and television productions, including novelizations and related materials.
Summaries
Wuthering Heights
A gothic tale of passion, obsession, and vengeance spanning two generations at isolated Yorkshire farmhouses, as the foundling Heathcliff's all-consuming love for Catherine Earnshaw destroys both their families, echoes through their children's lives, and only finds resolution through the reconciliation of Catherine's daughter and Hareton Earnshaw.
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Published in 1749, Henry Fielding's "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" is a picaresque comic novel chronicling the adventures of an orphaned youth raised by Squire Allworthy, whose romantic pursuit of Sophia Western leads to his banishment, misadventures across Britain, and ultimate revelations about his true parentage.