COMPSTD 2301 Introduction to World Literature

Need an idea for a novel?  Here are some suggestions:

Readers' Networking/Review Sites

goodreads - http://www.goodreads.com/  https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/non-american-authors

 

Library Thing - http://www.librarything.com/

Books  by International Authors, Our Suggestions

Chimimanda Adichie	Half a Yellow Sun	Half a Yellow Sun film
Isabelle Allende	House of the Spirits	House of the Spirits film
Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Persuasion	Jane Austen movies
Fredrik Backman	A Man Called Ove	A Man Called Ove film
Karen Blixen	Out of Africa	Out of Africa film
Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Jane Eyre adaptations
Emily Bronte	Wuthering Heights	WH adaptations
Pearl S. Buck	The Good Earth	The Good Earth film
Anthony Burgess	A Clockwork Orange	A Clockwork Orange film
Frances Hodgson Burnett	The Secret Garden, The Little Princess	The Secret Garden film
Lewis Carroll	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass	A in W adaptations
Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Don Quixote adaptations
James Clavell	Shogun, The Great Escape, To Sir with Love	Clavell adaptations
Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim
Charles Dickens	Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and many more	Dickens Film Adaptations
Roald Dahl	James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, Matilda and many more	Roald Dahl adaptations
Arthur Conan Doyle	Hound of the Baskervilles, plus many other stories featuring Sherlock Holmes	Sherlock Holmes movie
Alexandre Dumas	The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers	Count of Monte Cristo
George Elliot	Silas Marner	Silas Marner film
Gustave Flaubert	Madame Bovary	Madame Bovary film
Ian Fleming	Casino Royale, Goldfinger, and many others	James Bond films
Cornelia Funke	The Thief Lord, Inkheart	Thief Lord, Inkheart
Neil Gaiman	Coraline, The Graveyard Book, Neverwhere
William Golding	Lord of the Flies	Lord of the Flies
Thomas Hardy	Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd	Far From the Madding Crowd
Nick Hornby	A Long Way Down	A Long Way Down film
Khaled Hosseini	The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns	The Kite Runner
Victor Hugo	Les Miserables	Les Mis
Aldous Huxley	Brave New World	Brave New World film
Thor Heyerdahl	Kon-Tiki	Kon-Tiki
Kazuo Ishiguro	Never Let Me Go	Never Let Me Go
Diana Wynne Jones	Howl's Moving Castle	Howl's Moving Castle
Thomas Keneally	Schindler's List	Schindler's List
WP Kinsella	Shoeless Joe	Field of Dreams
Milan Kundera	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Unbearable Lighness of Being film
Stiegg Larsson	Girl with a Dragon Tattoo	The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo
Yann Martel	Life of Pi	Life of Pi
Gabriel Garcia Marquez	Love in the Time of Cholera	Love in the Time of Cholera
LM Montegomery	Anne of Green Gables	Anne
George Orwell	1984, Animal Farm	1984
Boris Pasternak	Doctor Zhivago	Doctor Zhivago
Alan Paton	Cry, the Beloved Country	Cry, the Beloved Country
Erich Maria Remarque	All Quiet on the Western Front	Movie on You Tube
Mordecai Richler	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Movie on You Tube
JK Rowling	Harry Potter series
Marjane Satrapi	Persepolis	Persepolis
Mary Shelley	Frankenstein	Various adaptations
Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Various adaptations
Bram Stoker	Dracula	Bram Stoker's Dracula
Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels	Various adaptations
JRR Tolkien	The Hobbit	Various adaptations
Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina, War and Peace	Anna Karenina Adaptations
Jules Verne	Around the World in Eighty Days	2004 version
H.G. Wells	The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds
Oscar Wilde	The Picture of Dorian Gray	You Tube
Markus Zusak	The Book Thief	The Book Thief

 

Looking for a copy of a novel?  Try

ATI Catalog

OSU Catalog

OhioLink Catalog

Looking for a film? Try

 Kanopy

Swank

Databases for Biography and Literature

Research Databases - all of them

Online Journal List - looking for a specific journal, like Variety or LA Times

 

Book Reviews

Academic One File

 

For your International Author Assignment

Biography Reference Bank

Dictionary of Literary Biography   

Literary Reference Center Plus

 

Information on Movies 

American Film Institute Catalog         Good for old films.

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text

Internet Movie Database

Rotten Tomatoes

 

Movie and Book Reviews in Newspapers

Newspaper Source

Citing a Movie   from the website Purdue OWL: MLA Formatting and Style Guide  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/09/

 

Films or Movies

List films (in theaters or not yet on DVD or streaming) by their title. Include the name of the director, the film studio or distributor, and the release year. If relevant, list performer names after the director’s name. Use the abbreviation perf. to head the list. List film as the medium of publication. To cite a DVD or other video recording, see “Recorded Films and Movies” below.

To emphasize specific performers (perf.) or directors (dir.), begin the citation with the name of the desired performer or director, followed by the appropriate abbreviation.

Recorded Films or Movies

List films by their title. Include the name of the director, the distributor, and the release year. If relevant, list performer names after the director’s name. Use the abbreviation perf. to head the list. End the entry with the appropriate medium of publication (e.g. DVD, VHS, Laser disc).