British novels adapted into operas

1949 dystopian social science fiction novel by George Orwell

1945 novella by George Orwell

1937 fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien

1813 novel by Jane Austen

1890–1891 novel by Oscar Wilde

Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons; and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. Driven by themes of love, possession, revenge, and reconciliation, the novel is influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. It is considered a classic of English literature.

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. In the process, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.

1859 novel by Charles Dickens

1899 novella by Joseph Conrad

1964 children's novel by Roald Dahl

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1848 novel by Anne Brontë

1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan

1814 novel by Jane Austen

English children's novel, 1908, originally unillustrated

1927 novel by Virginia Woolf

1912 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett

1891 novel by Thomas Hardy

1749 novel by Henry Fielding

novel by Laurence Sterne

novel by Daphne du Maurier

Coraline () is a 2002 British fantasy horror children's novella by author Neil Gaiman. Gaiman started writing Coraline in 1990, and it was published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and HarperCollins. It was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers. The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. It was adapted as a 2009 stop-motion animated film, directed by Henry Selick under the same name.

1983 children's book by Roald Dahl

novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett

1928 novel by Virginia Woolf

novel by H. Rider Haggard

1970 children's book written by Roald Dahl.

1874 novel by Thomas Hardy

1898 novella by Henry James

1934 novel by Robert Graves

novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich

1919 novel by W Somerset Maugham

1886 novel by Thomas Hardy

1796 novel by Matthew Lewis

novel by Edward Morgan Forster

1834 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

1638 novel by Francis Godwin

children's novel by Charles Kingsley

novel by Oliver Goldsmith

novel by Graham Greene

novella by English author Charles Dickens; published 1845

1880 romantic bildungsroman by Henry James

1894 novel by Arthur Machen

novel by Graham Greene

novel by David Lindsay

Skellig is a children's novel by the British author David Almond, published by Hodder in 1998. It was the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and it won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. In 2007, it placed third in the "Carnegie of Carnegies", after Northern Lights and ''Tom's Midnight Garden. In the U.S., it was a runner up for the Michael L. Printz Award, which recognises one work of young adult fiction annually. Since publication, it has also been adapted into a play, an opera, and a film. In December o

1895 novel by H. G. Wells

2005 novel by Salman Rushdie

1902 novel by Henry James

1984 novel by Iain Banks

novel by Joseph Conrad

novel by James Hogg

novel by E. M. Forster

novel by Robert Louis Stevenson

1887 novel by Thomas Hardy

1880 novel by Thomas Hardy