Novels adapted into ballets

novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)

1605 novel by Miguel de Cervantes

1949 dystopian social science fiction novel by George Orwell

1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.

1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

novel by Mikhail Bulgakov

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He details his obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he describes as a "nymphet". Humbert kidnaps and sexually abuses Dolores after becoming her stepfather. Privately, he calls her "Lolita", the Spanish diminutive for Dolores. The novel was written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. (where Nabokov lived) and Britain led to it being

novel by Victor Hugo

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.

1876 adventure novel and bildungsroman by Mark Twain

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.

1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë

novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin

1912 novella by Thomas Mann

1985 novel by Margaret Atwood

1979 novel by Michael Ende

1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas fils

2006 novel by John Boyne

1782 epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

novel by Abbé Prévost

novel by Honoré de Balzac (1831)

story by E. T. A. Hoffmann

2001 novel by Ian McEwan

1923 novel by Felix Salten

novella by Leo Tolstoy

1845 novel by Prosper Mérimée

1898 novella by Henry James

novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich

novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

novella by Edith Wharton

children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald

novel by Jacques Cazotte

novel by Adalbert Stifter

novel by Colette

1857 novel by Viktor Rydberg

novel by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

novel by the Countess of Ségur