Here's our pick of the best retold novels. Taking the voice of Jim ... com retelling", as Culturefly dubbed it, interweaves the "classic story with snarky banter, slow burn romance and a feminist ...

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Anyone who has studied Greek mythology knows the fate of this celebrated warrior, yet in “The Song of Achilles” Madeline Miller capably sustains the suspense; she uses the novel form to ...

A modern author was commissioned for each novel. These authors include Margaret Atwood ... Shouldn’t we be updating the classic stories that don’t align with our modern cultural values by directly ...

The story was retold from the point of view of a mixed-race ... Orange Prize winner Valerie Martin took the classic horror story of Jekyll and Hyde and created a novel seen through the eyes of a maid ...

Although I’d been meaning to read Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s marathon 11th-century classic “The Tale of ... rarefied life behind shoji screens. The book lays forth the episodic conquests ...

And today’s writers sometimes marry classic tales with their own modern approach. Here’s a list of upcoming novels that will give you a feeling of deja vu — but that’s not a problem.

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Enter Age of Mythology: Retold—not a 100% faithful translation ... was an important step towards resigning them to the history books. With all ship types available from the Classical age ...

If Age of Empires feels at least a little classy, like the kind of game you could show to your history buff dad, Age of Mythology is the pulp novel equivalent ... of Mythology: Retold is the ...

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