Now You Have Motivation To Read These Literary Classics! The Film Adaptation Is Streaming On Netflix
I got tired every time I think of the long list of must-read literary classics, just thinking of those giant heavy books makes me yawn, but now I have the interests to read them knowing that the film adaptation is streaming on Netfilx
Now I don’t have to pay for summer classes and don’t have to force myself into reading some long classic! Gotta go, I have some classics to catch on!
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1. Pride and Prejudice
Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Adaptations: Pride and Prejudice (1995, dir. Simon Langton), streaming onAmazon Prime Instant Video
Pride and Prejudice (1980, dir. Cyril Coke), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video, Netflix
2. Emma
Book: Emma by Jane Austen
Adaptations: Emma (2009, dir. Jim O’Hanlon), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video
Emma (1996, dir. Douglas McGrath), available on Amazon Prime Instant Video,Netflix
3. Sense and Sensibility
Book: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Adaptation: Sense and Sensibility (1995, dir. Ang Lee), streaming on Netflix
4. Mansfield Park
Book: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Adaptations: Mansfield Park (2008, dir. Iain B. MacDonald), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video, Netflix
Mansfield Park (1999, dir. Patricia Rozema), available on Amazon Prime Instant Video, Netflix
Mansfield Park (1983, dir. David Giles), available on Netflix
5. Persuasion
Book: Persuasion by Jane Austen
Adaptation: Persuasion (1995, dir. Roger Michell), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video
6. Great Expectations
Book: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Adaptations: Great Expectations (2013, dir. Graham McLaren [Filmed stage production]), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video
Great Expectations (2012, dir. Brian Kirk), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video, Netflix
7. Bleak House
Book: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Adaptations: Bleak House (2005, dir. Justin Chadwick), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video, Netflix
Bleak House (1995, dir. Ross Devenish, Susanna White), streaming on Netflix
8. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Book: The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Adaptations: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012, dir. Diarmuid Lawrence), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video, Netflix
9. Little Dorrit
Book: Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Adaptation: Little Dorrit (2008, dir. Dearbhla Walsh), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video
10. David Copperfield
Book: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Adaptation: David Copperfield (1969, dir. Delbert Mann), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video
11. Jane Eyre
Book: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Adaptations: Jane Eyre (1996, dir. Franco Zeffirelli), streaming on Netflix
Jane Eyre (1983, dir. Julian Amyes), streaming on Netflix
Jane Eyre (1970, dir. Delbert Mann), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video
Jane Eyre (1944, dir. Robert Stevenson), streaming on Netflix
12. Wuthering Heights
Book: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Adaptations: Wuthering Heights (2009, dir. Coky Giedroyc), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video, Netflix
Wuthering Heights (1939, dir. William Wyler), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video
13. Cranford
Book: Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Adaptation: Cranford (2007, dir. Simon Curtis, Steve Hudson)
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Instant Video
14. North and South
Book: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Adaptation: North and South (2004, dir Brian Percival), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video, Netflix
15. Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Book: Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Adaptation: Tess of the d’Urbervilles (2008, dir. David Blair), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video
16. The Woodlanders
Book: The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Adaptation: The Woodlanders (1997, dir. Phil Agland), streaming on Netflix
17. Middlemarch
Book: Middlemarch by George Eliot
Adaptation: Middlemarch (1994, dir. Anthony Page), streaming on Netflix
18. Daniel Deronda
Book: Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Adaptation: Daniel Deronda (2002, dir. Tom Hooper), streaming on Netflix
19. Anna Karenina
Book: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Adaptations: Anna Karenina (2001, dir. George Faber), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video
Anna Karenina (1948, dir. Julien Duvivier), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video
20. Ethan Frome
Book: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Adaptation: Ethan Frome (1993, dir. John Madden), streaming on Netflix
21. A Room With a View
Book: A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
Adaptation: A Room With a View (1986, dir. James Ivory), streaming on Netflix
22. The Great Gatsby
Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Adaptation: The Great Gatsby (1974, dir. Jack Clayton), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video, Netflix
23. Of Mice and Men
Book: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Adaptation: Of Mice and Men (1992, dir. Gary Sinise), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video
24. The Grapes of Wrath
Book: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Adaptation: The Grapes of Wrath (1940, dir. John Ford) streaming on Netflix
25. 1984
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Book: 1984 by George Orwell
Adaptation: 1984 (1984, dir. Michael Radford), streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video
