List of fictional works using settings created by other artists

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This is a partial list of works of fiction that are written within, or derived from, the framework of another work of fiction by another author. This list does not include franchised book series, which are typically works licensed by the publisher of the original work to use its settings and characters. This list thus excludes such works as Star Trek and Star Wars novels. Works on this list usually have the same setting and time period, and many of the same characters, but are told from a different perspective.

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Title Author Parallels by
Jane Fairfax Joan Aiken Emma Jane Austen
Imoinda or She Who Will Lose Her Name Joan Anim-Addo Oroonoko Aphra Behn
The Penelopiad Margaret Atwood The Odyssey Homer
The Looking Glass Wars Frank Beddor Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
March[1] Geraldine Brooks Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Jack Maggs Peter Carey Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Finn Jon Clinch Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Foe J. M. Coetzee Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Eaters of the Dead Michael Crichton Beowulf
The Hours Michael Cunningham Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
The Castle of Iron L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt Orlando Furioso Ludovico Ariosto
The Mathematics of Magic L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt The Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser
Sir Harold and the Gnome King L. Sprague de Camp Oz books L. Frank Baum
Sir Harold of Zodanga L. Sprague de Camp Barsoom series Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Last Ringbearer[2] Kirill Eskov Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
The Other Log of Phileas Fogg Philip José Farmer Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne
A Barnstormer in Oz Philip José Farmer The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum
"The Problem of Susan" Neil Gaiman The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis
Grendel John Gardner Beowulf
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Seth Grahame-Smith Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Long John Silver Bjorn Larsson Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
Lavinia Ursula K. Le Guin Aeneid Virgil
Wicked Gregory Maguire The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and 1939 film version L. Frank Baum
Mary Reilly Valerie Martin The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
Fool Christopher Moore King Lear William Shakespeare
The Holder of the World Bharati Mukherjee The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Wind Done Gone[3] Alice Randall Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Wide Sargasso Sea[4] Jean Rhys Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
Was Geoff Ryman The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and 1939 film version L. Frank Baum
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard Hamlet William Shakespeare
Gertrude and Claudius John Updike Hamlet William Shakespeare
Ahab's Wife, Or, The Star-Gazer Sena Jeter Naslund Moby Dick, Or, the Whale Herman Melville

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  1. ^ "BKMT Reading Guides: March: A Novel". Bookmovement.com. 2005-03-03. http://www.bookmovement.com/app/readingguide/view.php?readingGuideID=905. Retrieved 2011-01-02. 
  2. ^ Laura Miller, Middle-earth according to Mordor, 15 February 2011.
  3. ^ "New Georgia Encyclopedia: The Wind Done Gone". Georgiaencyclopedia.org. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-776. Retrieved 2011-01-02. 
  4. ^ Kate. "Wide Sargasso Sea and its literary and socio-historic contexts". Eng.fju.edu.tw. http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/caribbean/rhys_eyre.html#Jane. Retrieved 2011-01-02. 
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