For the Love of Classics

Classic Books and Books Based on the Classics

Loving Will Shakespeare: Carolyn Meyer: 265 pages
In Stratford-upon-Avon, romance blossoms between childhood friends Anne Hathaway and Will Shakespeare, changing both of their lives forever, in this enthralling novel that details the turbulent relationship between the world's most famous playwright and the spirited farmer's daughter he married.

King Lear: Ian Pollock and William Shakespeare: 139 pages
Vivid drawings accompany Shakespeare's classic play portraying the tragic experiences of Lear after he gives up his position as king.

Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte: 578 pages
The classic novel traces the doomed love affair between an orphaned, independent-minded governess and her brooding employer, Mr. Rochester.

Enthusiasm: Polly Shulman: 198 pages
Julie and Ashleigh, high school sophomores and Jane Austen fans, seem to fall for the same Mr. Darcy-like boy and struggle to hide their true feelings from one another while rehearsing for a school musical.

The Book of Mordred: Vivian Vande Velde: 342 pages
As the peaceful King Arthur reigns, the five-year-old daughter of Lady Alayna is abducted by knights who leave their barn burning and their only servant dead.

Little Women: Louisa May Alcott: 562 pages
The four March sisters experience joys and sorrows as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.

Wuthering High: Cara Lockwood: 257 pages
Fifteen-year-old Miranda is sent to a boarding school for delinquent teens in Maine, but she can't tell if it is the unhappy ghosts or the other students who will cause her the most trouble when their lives begin mirroring plots in classic literature.

The Three Musketeers: Alexandre Dumas: 663 pages
D'Artagnan, an impetuous young man determined to join the King's Musketeers, finds himself in an alliance with three of the group's finest swordsmen--Athos, Porthos, and Aramis--as they try to foil a plot by the scheming Cardinal Richelieu and his agent, the wicked Lady de Winter.

For more recommendations ask a librarian about the 111 Classic Books booklist and the Classics with a Twist booklist.

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