Parallel novel
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A parallel novel is a work of fiction that exists within, or derives from, the framework of another work of fiction by another author. They usually have the same setting and time period, and many of the same characters, but are told from a different perspective.
Examples include:
- The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee (parallels The Scarlet Letter)
- Was by Geoff Ryman (parallels The Wizard of Oz books by L. Frank Baum)
- Wicked [1] by Gregory Maguire (parallels The Wizard of Oz books by L. Frank Baum and 1939 film The Wizard of Oz)
- Wide Sargasso Sea [2] by Jean Rhys (parallels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë)
- Till We Have Faces [3] by C. S. Lewis (parallels Cupid and Psyche in Metamorphoses by Lucius Apuleius)
- The Wind Done Gone [4] by Alice Randall (parallels Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell)
- Ender's Shadow [5] by Orson Scott Card (parallels Ender's Game by the same author)
- Jane Fairfax [6] by Joan Aiken (parallels Emma by Jane Austen)
- March [7] by Geraldine Brooks (parallels Little Women by Louisa May Alcott)
- The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (parallels The Odyssey by Homer)
- Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin (parallels The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson)
- Grendel by John Gardner (parallels Beowulf)
- Jack Maggs by Peter Carey (parallels Great Expectations by Charles Dickens)
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham (parallels Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf)
- Foe by J. M. Coetzee (parallels Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe)
- I, Jedi by Michael A. Stackpole (parallels The Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson)
Although neither work is a novel, another example of parallel literature is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard, which parallels Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Also, the The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa is a comic book series that parallels the stories of Carl Barks that feature Scrooge McDuck.
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