Masterpieces reimagined and stories that give a literary hat-tip to their predecessors.
Comedies, tragedies, histories, heroes’ journeys, rags to riches (or vice-versa) – examine anything you read and you’ll likely recognise elements of things you’ve encountered before. But a wonderful thing about literature is that even the same story retold can be so seductive you lose sight of any such tropes and get lost in the narrative, or character journeys, or language, or setting, or all of the above. Here are some books that wear delicate traces of their inspirations on their pages rather than their sleeves.
