What year was the book that inspired the short silent film Esmeralda published?
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Esmeralda (1905 film) Esmeralda (French: "Esméralda" ) is a 1905 French short silent film based on the novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" written by Victor Hugo. It was directed by Alice Guy-Blaché and Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset.
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris ) is a French Romantic/Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The original French title refers to Notre Dame Cathedral, on which the story is centered. English translator Frederic Shoberl named the novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" in 1833 because at the time, Gothic novels were more popular than Romance novels in England. The story is set in Paris, France in the Late Middle Ages, during the reign of Louis XI.
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Night Flight (novel) Night Flight , published as "Vol de Nuit" in 1931, was the second novel by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It went on to become an international bestseller and a film based on it appeared in 1933. Its popularity, which only grew with the ideological conflicts of the 1930s – 1940s, was due to its master theme of sacrificing personal considerations to a cause in which one believes.
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The Shadow Line The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915. It was first published in 1916 as a serial in New York's "Metropolitan Magazine" (September—October) in the "English Review" (September 1916-March 1917) and published in book form in 1917 in the UK (March) and America (April). The novella depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the "shadow line" of the title representing the threshold of this development.
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The Book of Ceremonial Magic The Book of Ceremonial Magic by Arthur Edward Waite was originally called The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts. It was first published in a limited run in 1898, and distributed more widely under the title "The Book of Ceremonial Magic" in 1910. It is an attempt to document various famous grimoires, explain the history behind them (refuting many of the legends surrounding them), discuss the theology contained therein (e.g. raising the question why good angels would be summoned to kill an enemy), and to synthesize many famous grimoires into one system.
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A Universal History of Infamy A Universal History of Infamy, or A Universal History of Iniquity (original Spanish title: Historia universal de la infamia), is a collection of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, first published in 1935, and revised by the author in 1954. Most were published individually in the newspaper "Critica" between 1933 and 1934. Angel Flores, the first to use the term "magical realism", set the beginning of the movement with this book.
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Alfarrábios Alfarrábios is a historical novel by the Brazilian writer José de Alencar, first published in 1873. It is composed of three minor narratives: "O Garatuja", "O Ermitão da Glória" and "Alma de Lázaro".
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The Night Buffalo The Night Buffalo (orig. Spanish "El Búfalo de la Noche") is a novel by Guillermo Arriaga.
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Consuelo (novel) Consuelo is a novel by George Sand, first published serially in 1842-1843 in "La Revue indépendante", a periodical founded in 1841 by Sand, Pierre Leroux and Louis Viardot. According to "The Nuttall Encyclopædia", it is "[Sand's] masterpiece; the impersonation of the triumph of moral purity over manifold temptations."
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Camille (1917 film) Camille is a 1917 American silent film based on the play adaptation of "La Dame aux Camélias" ("The Lady of the Camellias") by Alexandre Dumas, "fils", first published in French as a novel in 1848 and as a play in 1852. Adapted for the screen by Adrian Johnson, "Camille" was directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starred Theda Bara as Camille and Albert Roscoe as her lover, Armand.
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Little Women Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher.
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Of Love and Other Demons Of Love and Other Demons (Spanish: Del amor y otros demonios) is a novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, first published in 1994.
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La Tierra de Jauja La Tierra de Jauja (English: The Land of Jauja) is a Spanish "paso" or "entremés", written by Lope de Rueda and first published in 1547. The short dramatic piece tells the story of two hungry thieves who devise a plan to con a simpleton out of his food by telling him about the fictional wonders of the Land of Jauja. While one tells the story the other steals the food until it is all gone.
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The Undying Past The Undying Past is an 1894 novel by the German writer Hermann Sudermann. Its German title is Es war which means "it was". The novel tells the story of how a German man, Leo, returns to his homeland after several year in South America, only to find that Ulrich, his beloved childhood friend, has married a woman with whom Leo has a dark past. The book was published in English in 1906, translated by Beatrice Marshall.
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The Son of Tarzan The Son of Tarzan is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fourth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was written between January 21 and May 11, 1915, and first published in the magazine "All-Story Weekly" as a six-part serial from December 4, 1915 – January 8, 1916. It was first published in book form by A. C. McClurg & Co. in March, 1917 and has been reprinted numerous times since by various publishers.
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Tarzan and the Lost Empire Tarzan and the Lost Empire is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the twelfth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published as a serial in "Blue Book Magazine" from October 1928 through February 1929; it first appeared in book form in a hardcover edition from Metropolitan Books in September 1929.
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Tristana (novel) Tristana is a novel by Spanish author Benito Pérez Galdós first published in 1892.
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Legacy of Cain The Legacy of Cain (German: "Das Vermächtnis Kains" ; sometimes translated as "Heritage of Cain") is an unfinished cycle of novellas by the 19th century Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. His original plan was to group various novellas into 6 volumes, each of which was titled according to its central theme; those are "Love", "Property", "State", "War", "Work", and "Death". Only the first two volumes, "Love" (1870) and "Property", (1877) were completed. By the middle of the 1880s, Masoch abandoned the grandiose idea of "The Legacy of Cain", although some of the novellas intended for the cycle had been published.
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Maya's Notebook Maya's Notebook (Spanish: "El cuaderno de Maya" , 2011) is a Spanish-language novel by the Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende, published by Plaza & Janés in June 2011. It depicts Maya Vidal, a young adult from Berkeley, California who travels to Chiloé, a region in Chile. While staying in Chiloé, Maya writes in a notebook, describing both her current life in Chiloé and her past in California, Oregon, and Nevada.
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Ramona Ramona is an 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in Southern California after the Mexican-American War, it portrays the life of a mixed-race Scots–Native American orphan girl, who suffers racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in the "Christian Union" on a weekly basis, the novel became immensely popular. It has had more than 300 printings, and been adapted five times as a film. A play adaptation has been performed annually outdoors since 1923.
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Ramuntcho Ramuntcho (1897) is a novel by French author Pierre Loti. It is a love and adventure story about contraband runners in the Basque province of France. It is one of Loti's most popular stories—"love, loss and faith remain eternal themes"—with four French film adaptations. It was first published in 5 parts, from 15 December 1896 to 15 February 1897, in the "Revue de Paris". Calmann-Lévy published the novel in two parts on 10 March 1897. A dramatized version was staged in Paris in 1910, with incidental music by Gabriel Pierné.
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Independence Day (book series) The feature film "Independence Day" has been the inspiration for a series of novels. The first three novels were originally published in the 1990s based on the 1996 release of the first film, and were republished in March 2016 as a single-volume edition ("The Complete Independence Day Omnibus").