The Book and the Movie: The Tin Drum / Günter Grass, 1959 | Volker Schlöndorff, 1979
The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass. The novel is the first book of...
The Book and the Movie
The Book and the Movie: Les Tricheurs / The Cheaters | Marcel Carné (1958)
"Listening to that?" said the woman, pointing with a smile to the radiogram. "That", said...
The Book & the Movie: White Nights | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1848 / Luchino Visconti, 1957
“And was it his destined part Only one moment in his life To be close to your heart? Or was...
The Book and the Movie: Sult / Hunger | Knut Hamsun, 1890 / Henning Carlsen, 1966
“I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around...
The Book & the Movie: The Island of Dr. Moreau / H.G. Wells (1896) | Island of Lost Souls / Erle C. Kenton (1932)
“My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the ...
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The Book & the Movie: The Spiral Staircase / Some Must Watch | Ethel Lina White, 1933 / Robert Siodmak, 1946
"For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away." William Shakespeare, Hamlet"The wind shrieked, as though a flock...
The Book and the Movie: Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier, 1938 / Alfred Hitchcock, 1940
Rebecca (1938) is a novel by English author Daphne du Maurier. Daphne du Maurier always said her novel Rebecca was a...
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The Book and the Movie: Woyzeck | Georg Büchner, 1836 -79 / János Szász, 1994
Woyzeck is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. He left the work incomplete at his death, but it has...
The Book & the Movie: The Wanderer / Le Grand Meaulnes / Ο μεγάλος Μωλν | Alain-Fournier, 1913 / Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, 1967
^ Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes, 1913 Cover illustration: Edward Gorey . “I am looking for something still more mysterious: for the path...
The Book and the Movie: Quiet Days in Clichy | Henry Miller, 1956 / Jens Jørgen Thorsen, 1970
"Montmartre is sluggish, lazy, indifferent, somewhat shabby and seedy-looking, not glamorous so much as seductive, not scintillating but glowing with...