Great novels are often connected-to (or based-on) real-life events. It's fun to search-for (and uncover) those connections. This Collection features fictional stories with real-life tie-ins.
When Charles Dickens started to write his famous novella, "A Christmas Carol," he was in a hurry.
This image depicts a Russian-language, two-volume set of Brothers Karamazov. Fyodor Dostoevsky, its author, died four months after finishing the...
Bookcover image of Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote this book—known variously as The Possessed, Demons and Devils—after a real-life murder occurred in Russia dur...
This image depicts a farewell letter which Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote to his brother, Mikhail, before he left for the penal colony in Siberia. Click on ...
Bookcover image of Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871, by Joseph Frank.
This image depicts the book cover of The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. Thanks for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (the publisher) and Goo...
Bookcover image of Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Writer's Life, by Geir Kjetsaa.
Bookcover image of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy (Oxford World's Classics Series, by J.M. Barrie, Peter Hollingdale (edito...
This image depicts the cover of Michael Crichton's famous book, Jurassic Park. It is this book on which the film "Jurassic Park" is based.
Bookcover image of Memoirs from the House of the Dead, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Virginia Woolf begins her story, Mrs. Dalloway, in a very unusual style (for the time). This image depicts the beginning of her novel. Cl...
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