Oliver Twist. Poster of the 1999 TV series and cover of the 1838 book
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens, 1838
TV series vs book
Renny Rye, 1999

Little Oliver Twist, already abused, starved, and overworked, is apprenticed to an undertaker and runs away to London after being bullied by an older apprentice. There, he is taken in by Fagin, a fence and thief-trainer, and his gang of pickpockets. He is befriended by Nancy, a good-hearted prostitute, and meets her lover, the brutal housebreaker Bill Sikes.


The Railway Children. Poster of the 2000 movie and cover of the 1906 book
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The Railway Children
E. Nesbit, 1906
movie vs book
Catherine Morshead, 2000

Roberta, Phyllis and Peter are the three children of a wonderful mother and father. One day the father, who works at the Foreign Office, is imprisoned as a result of being falsely accused of selling state secrets to the Russians. The children and their mother fall on hard times and eventually move to a poor cottage in the country, near a railway line. Fascinated by the railroad, wave the passengers every day, and their vigilance and courage prevent an accident.


Out of Africa. Poster of the 1985 movie and cover of the 1937 book
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Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), 1937
movie vs book
Sydney Pollack, 1985

Karen Blixen recalls her past life in Africa where she moved in 1913 as an unmarried wealthy Danish woman. After having been being spurned by her Swedish nobleman lover, she asks his brother Baron Bror Blixen to get married out of mutual convenience, and they move to the vicinity of Nairobi, British East Africa.


Out of Africa. Poster of the 1985 movie and cover of the 1982 book, Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
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Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
Judith Thurman, 1982
movie vs book
Sydney Pollack, 1985

Karen Blixen recalls her past life in Africa where she moved in 1913 as an unmarried wealthy Danish woman. After having been being spurned by her Swedish nobleman lover, she asks his brother Baron Bror Blixen to get married out of mutual convenience, and they move to the vicinity of Nairobi, British East Africa.


Out of Africa. Poster of the 1985 movie and cover of the 1977 book, Silence Will Speak
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Silence Will Speak
Errol Trzebinski, 1977
movie vs book
Sydney Pollack, 1985

Karen Blixen recalls her past life in Africa where she moved in 1913 as an unmarried wealthy Danish woman. After having been being spurned by her Swedish nobleman lover, she asks his brother Baron Bror Blixen to get married out of mutual convenience, and they move to the vicinity of Nairobi, British East Africa.


The Buccaneers. Poster of the 1995 TV series and cover of the 1938 book
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The Buccaneers
Edith Wharton, 1938
TV series vs book
Philip Saville, 1995

Considered newly wealthy and rejected by the snobbish circles of New York society, sisters Nan and Virginia St. George, along with their friends Lizzy Elmsworth and Conchita Closson, venture to London. Their bold and impudent New World attitudes amount to a social invasion of Old World society, attracting a host of intrigued admirers. However, as the clash between old and new worlds intensifies, a breaking point is inevitable.


My Week with Marilyn. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 2000 book
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My Week with Marilyn
Colin Clark, 2000
movie vs book
Simon Curtis, 2011

Following his graduation from Christ Church, Oxford in 1956, aspiring filmmaker Colin Clark travels to London to get a job on Laurence Olivier’s next production. The press discover the house, but Colin reveals he secured a second house just in case, impressing Olivier and Marilyn’s publicist, Arthur P. Jacobs.


My Week with Marilyn. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 1995 book, The Prince, The Showgirl and Me
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The Prince, The Showgirl and Me
Colin Clark, 1995
movie vs book
Simon Curtis, 2011

Following his graduation from Christ Church, Oxford in 1956, aspiring filmmaker Colin Clark travels to London to get a job on Laurence Olivier’s next production. The press discover the house, but Colin reveals he secured a second house just in case, impressing Olivier and Marilyn’s publicist, Arthur P. Jacobs.


Fatherland. Poster of the 1994 movie and cover of the 1991 book
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Fatherland
Robert Harris, 1991
movie vs book
Christopher Menaul, 1994

Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany’s war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.


The Russia House. Poster of the 1990 movie and cover of the 1989 book
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The Russia House
John le Carré, 1989
movie vs book
Fred Schepisi, 1990

Bartholomew Barley Scott-Blair, the head of a British publishing firm, arrives in Moscow on business. At a writers’ retreat near Peredelkino, he speaks of an end to tensions with the West, heard by the mysterious Dante, who demands for Barley to promise to do the right thing if the opportunity arises.