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A parallel novel is a work of fiction
Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
 that exists within, or derives from, the framework of another work of fiction by another author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
. They usually have the same setting and time period, and many of the same characters
Fictional character

A character is any person, persona, identity, or entity that exists in a The arts. The process of conveying information about characters in fiction is called characterisation....
, but are told from a different perspective.

Examples include:

Although neither work is a novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
, another example of parallel literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
 is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard Order of Merit , Order of the British Empire, FRSL is a British screenwriter and playwright. He has written plays such as The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia , Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Rock 'n' Roll ....
, which parallels Hamlet
Hamlet

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
 by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
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A parallel novel is a work of fiction
Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
 that exists within, or derives from, the framework of another work of fiction by another author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
. They usually have the same setting and time period, and many of the same characters
Fictional character

A character is any person, persona, identity, or entity that exists in a The arts. The process of conveying information about characters in fiction is called characterisation....
, but are told from a different perspective.

Examples include:
  • The Holder of the World
    The Holder of the World

    The Holder of the World, is a novel by Bharati Mukherjee. It is a retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne 's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, placing the story in two centuries ....
     by Bharati Mukherjee
    Bharati Mukherjee

    Bharati Mukherjee is an award-winning Indian born List of novelists from the United States. She is currently a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley....
     (parallels The Scarlet Letter
    The Scarlet Letter

    The Scarlet Letter is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered his magnum opus. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity....
    )
  • Wicked by Gregory Maguire
    Gregory Maguire

    Gregory Maguire is an United States author. He is the author of the novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and many other novels for adults and children....
     (parallels The Wizard of Oz
    The Wizard of Oz (adaptations)

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum, which has been adapted into several different works, the most famous being the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz , starring Judy Garland....
     books by L. Frank Baum
    L. Frank Baum

    Lyman Frank Baum was an United States author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker, best known today as the creator, along with illustrator W....
     and 1939 film The Wizard of Oz
    The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

    The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States musical film-fantasy film mainly directed by Victor Fleming and based on the 1900 Children's literature novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L....
    )
  • Wide Sargasso Sea
    Wide Sargasso Sea

    Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 in literature postcolonial literature parallel novel by Dominica-born author Jean Rhys. After her last work, Good Morning, Midnight, Rhys lived in obscurity before Wide Sargasso Sea was published in 1939....
     by Jean Rhys
    Jean Rhys

    Jean Rhys , born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, was a mid 20th century Dominican novelist. She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea, written as a "prequel" to Charlotte Bront?'s Jane Eyre....
     (parallels Jane Eyre
    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre is a famous and influential novel by English writer Charlotte Bront?. It was published in London, England in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co....
     by Charlotte Brontë
    Charlotte Brontë

    Charlotte Bront? was a United Kingdom novelist, the eldest of the three famous Bront? sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature....
    )
  • Till We Have Faces
    Till We Have Faces

    Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is a 1956 in literature parallel novel by C. S. Lewis. It is a retelling of the Greek mythology of Cupid and Psyche, which had haunted Lewis all his life, and which is itself based on a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius....
     by C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis

    Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist....
     (parallels Cupid and Psyche
    Cupid and Psyche

    The legend of Cupid and Psyche first appeared as a digressionary story told by an old woman in Apuleius' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century A.D....
     in Metamorphoses by Ovid
    Ovid

    Publius Ovidius Naso was a Roman Empire poet known as Ovid to the English language-speaking world, who wrote about love, seduction, and Roman mythology transformation....
    )
  • The Wind Done Gone
    The Wind Done Gone

    The Wind Done Gone is the first novel written by Alice Randall. It is a historical fiction parallel novel that reinterprets the famous United States novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell....
     by Alice Randall
    Alice Randall

    Alice Randall is an United States author and songwriter. Randall grew up in Washington, D.C.. She attended Harvard University, where she earned an honors degree in English and American literature, before moving to Nashville in 1983 to become a country songwriter....
     (parallels Gone with the Wind
    Gone with the Wind

    Gone with the Wind is a romantic drama and the only novel by Margaret Mitchell. The story follows Scarlett O'Hara, the daughter of a plantation owner in Georgia during and after the Civil War....
     by Margaret Mitchell
    Margaret Mitchell

    Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Marsh , popularly known as Margaret Mitchell, was an United States of America author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind....
    )
  • Jane Fairfax by Joan Aiken
    Joan Aiken

    Joan Delano Aiken was an England novelist. She was born in Rye, East Sussex, East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father, Conrad Aiken , and her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge....
     (parallels Emma
    Emma

    Emma is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in December, 1815. Ostensibly a story about the perils of misconstrued romance, in fact the author treats with two of her more common themes, namely: the concerns and difficulties of women's lives in Georgian era-British Regency England; and, a 'comedy of manners' among her characters, each...
     by Jane Austen
    Jane Austen

    Jane Austen was an English novelist whose Literary realism, biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech, Burlesque , and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature....
    )
  • March by Geraldine Brooks
    Geraldine Brooks

    Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-United States journalist and author. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for March ....
     (parallels Little Women
    Little Women

    Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott . Written and published in two parts in 1868 in literature and 1869 in literature, the novel follows the lives of four sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March — and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters....
     by Louisa May Alcott)
  • The Penelopiad
    The Penelopiad

    The Penelopiad is a novella by Margaret Atwood. It was published in 2005 as part of the first set of books in the Canongate Myth Series where contemporary authors rewrite ancient Mythology....
     by Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Atwood

    Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Order of Canada is a Canada author, poet, literary criticism, feminist and activism. She is among the most-honored authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C....
     (parallels The Odyssey by Homer
    Homer

    Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
    )
  • Mary Reilly
    Mary Reilly (novel)

    Mary Reilly is a 1990 parallel novel by American writer Valerie Martin. It is a re-working of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde....
     by Valerie Martin
    Valerie Martin

    Valerie Martin is an United States novelist and short story writer. She has also taught at Mount Holyoke College, Loyola University New Orleans, The University of New Orleans, The University of Alabama, and Sarah Lawrence College, among other institutions....
     (parallels The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scotland author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr....
     by Robert Louis Stevenson
    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and Travel writing. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J....
    )
  • Grendel
    Grendel (novel)

    Grendel is a 1971 in literature parallel novel by United States author John Gardner . It is a retelling of the Old English language epic poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel....
     by John Gardner (parallels Beowulf
    Beowulf

    Beowulf is an Old English language heroic Epic poetry of unknown authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the 8th to the early 11th century, and relates events described as having occurred in what is now Denmark and Sweden....
    )
  • Jack Maggs
    Jack Maggs

    Jack Maggs is a novel by Peter Carey ....
     by Peter Carey (parallels Great Expectations
    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serial ised in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is regarded as one of his greatest and most sophisticated novels, and is one of his most enduringly popular, having been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times....
     by Charles Dickens
    Charles Dickens

    Charles John Huffam Dickens, Royal Society of Arts , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English people novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous Reform movement....
    )
  • The Hours
    The Hours (novel)

    The Hours is a 1998 in literature novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Academy Awards-winning 2002 The Hours starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore....
     by Michael Cunningham
    Michael Cunningham

    Michael Cunningham is an award-winning United States writer, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999....
      (parallels Mrs Dalloway
    Mrs Dalloway

    Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels....
     by Virginia Woolf
    Virginia Woolf

    Adeline Virginia Woolf was an England novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literature literature figures of the twentieth century....
    )
  • Foe
    Foe (novel)

    Foe is a 1986 novel by expatriate South African author J. M. Coetzee. Woven around the existing plot of Robinson Crusoe, Foe is written from the perspective of Susan Barton, a castaway who landed on the same island inhabited by "Cruso" and Man Friday as their adventures were already underway....
     by J. M. Coetzee
    John Maxwell Coetzee

    John Maxwell Coetzee is an author and academic from South Africa . A novelist and Literary criticism as well as a translator, Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature....
     (parallels Robinson Crusoe
    Robinson Crusoe

    Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It was first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Indigenous peoples of the Americas, captives, and mu...
     by Daniel Defoe
    Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe , born Daniel Foe, was an United Kingdom writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe....
    )
  • The Other Log of Phileas Fogg
    The Other Log of Phileas Fogg

    The Other Log of Phileas Fogg is a science fiction/Steampunk parallel novel written by Philip Jos? Farmer in 1973. It was originally published by DAW Books and later reprinted in 1979 by Hamlyn and again in 1982 by Tor Books....
     by Philip José Farmer
    Philip José Farmer

    Philip Jos? Farmer was an United States author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy fiction novels and short story.Farmer is best known for his Riverworld series and the earlier World of Tiers series....
     (parallels Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
    Jules Verne

    Jules Gabriel Verne was a France author who helped pioneer the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth , From the Earth to the Moon , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , and Around the World in Eighty Days ....
    )
  • Finn by Jon Clinch (parallels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain


Although neither work is a novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
, another example of parallel literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
 is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard Order of Merit , Order of the British Empire, FRSL is a British screenwriter and playwright. He has written plays such as The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia , Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Rock 'n' Roll ....
, which parallels Hamlet
Hamlet

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
 by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
. Also, the The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is a Revisionism comic book story by Don Rosa about Scrooge McDuck.Originally, the story had twelve chapters totalling 212 pages....
 by Don Rosa
Don Rosa

Keno Don Hugo Rosa is an United States comic book writer and illustrator best known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other The Walt Disney Company characters....
 is a comic book series that parallels the stories of Carl Barks
Carl Barks

Carl Barks was a famous The Walt Disney Company illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck , Gladstone Gander , the Beagle Boys , Gyro Gearloose , Flintheart Glomgold , John D....
 that feature Scrooge McDuck.

See also

  • Fan fiction
    Fan fiction

    Fan fiction is a broadly-defined term for stories about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creator....