Neverending Stories: Professional Fan Fiction: DuMaurier-Hugo

Orig. author Book or character PFF author PFF Title Publisher Date Cat 1 Cat 2 Cat 3 Notes

Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca Beauman, Sally Rebecca's Tale New York: HarperTorch, 2001 2001 Refocalization Moral realignment Sequel Authorized sequel. Doesn't make the mistake of imitating tone and style of the original. Told from several povs: Col. Julyan, Gray (historian investigating the death, thinks he might be R's son), Rebecca (by far the weakest part. R comes across as unstable and capricious, not strong, vibrant, capable. Tone and actions don't match. Doesn't match others' descriptions/captivation), and Ellie Julyan, the Col's daughter. [spoiler] Interesting connection with Mrs. deWinter: they'd returned to England to live and Max killed himself on the road/entrance gate to Manderley (maybe this is fanon?).[/spoiler] Each narrator is unreliable to some degree, everyone interprets Rebecca according to their own character. Big theme of women's independence and marriage as prison/slavery.

Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca Freely, Maureen The Other Rebecca Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2000 1996 Dislocation Narrated by a different, but still nameless, second wife following a first wife named Rebecca. Same long, unsympathetic, and frustrating main character. Max (Midwinter) still an unstable jackass. All of the characters in the original have counterparts here. R was a famous writer and so is Max and they're presented at first as similar to Sylvia Plath and Ted whatshisname, everyone thinks Max killed her or drove her to suicide.

Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca Hill, Susan Mrs. DeWinter New York: Avon Books, 1993 1993 Expansion Sequel More of the endless tale of woe in dreary interior monologue. Nothing happens until p. 85 (of 400+) when the still nameless Mrs. deWinter discovers a funeral wreath card with "R" on it. Max and Mrs. return to England for Beatrice's funeral. [spoiler] After more traveling, get a house in England, run ins with Favell and Mrs. Danvers very late in the book. Mrs. wants children, repeatedly imagines children, inner voice keeps reminding her that Max murdered his wife. She doesn't tell Max about seeing a gynecologist, running into Favell, or that Danvers now works in the neighborhood of their new home. Max kills himself on the road/entrance gate to Manderley.[/spoiler]. And on and on and on.

Eliot, George Mill on the Floss Drabble, Margaret The Waterfall London: Wiedenfield and Nicolson, 1969 1969

Epstein, Julius et al Casablanca Walsh, Michael As Time Goes By NY: Warner Books, 1998 1998 Expansion Sequel Prequel Begins immediately after film ends, and alternates sequel with prequel flashbacks to Rick's life as speakeasy manager/gangster in 1930s New York. Characters based on Dutch Schultz and others, cameos by RPs Mae West and George Raft, some names are plays on Hollywood RPs, or from the original play. RB's real name is Yitzak Baline. Meta: name play, RB passes theatre showing High Sierra, ref to Maltese Falcon. [spoiler] Louis, Victor killed--Victor motivated by revenge for father's death, kills Louis thinking Louis has betrayed operation to assassinate Czech leader, Rick and Ilsa end up together [/spoiler] Beyond awful in its destruction of beloved characters.If you love the film, don't read this book.

Galsworthy, John Forsyte Saga Dawson, Suleika Forsytes NY: Dell Books, 1994 1994

Hardy, Thomas Tess of the D'Ubervilles Tennant, Emma Tess London: HarperCollins, 1993 1993

Hawthorne, Nathaniel Scarlet Letter Bigsby, Christopher Hester NY: Penguin, 1994 1994 Expansion Prequel Hester and Chillingworth's courtship and cold marriage, H's emigration, meets Dimmesdale on ship. Retells SL. CB says "Hester is not designed merely as a pastiche…" In love with Hester. Dull, dense, very long 185 pages.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel Scarlet Letter Bigsby, Christopher Pearl London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995 1995 Refocalization Sequel Pearl Prynne travels to the English land she inherited from Chillingworth. Gave up at p.50. Don't like the direct address of the reader by the author in all the "we"s.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel Scarlet Letter Updike, John Roger's Version NY; Alfred A. Knopf, 1986 1986 Dislocation Roger the ex-minister, now prof, married to Esther...I skimmed the first 216 pages and gave up. Religion, science, and grotty sex in New England.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel Scarlet Letter Updike, John Month of Sundays NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975 1975 Dislocation Some say no, some say trilogy. On this one, I say not so much. There's a Prynne and a Chilingworth, and an adulterous minister sent to rehab to write (using, you know, letters). But that's it. Grubby, icky, and misogynist in the Updike way.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel Scarlet Letter Updike, John S. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988 1988 Dislocation The jacket on this one explicitly says it's a retelling of Hester's side of SL. Set, like the others, in 20th c. Sarah Worth (Hester) leaves husband and grown daughter Pearl to follow her lover, a Hindu religious leader with an ashram in Arizona. Told in letters and tapes to family and others. Skimmed to 86 and gave up. JU is all the same. Old man and young girls, explicit unerotic sex. Like listening to upperclass WASP old boys.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel Scarlet Letter Mukherjee, Bharati Holder of the World NY: Ballantine Books, 1993 1994 Dislocation Hannah Easton is born in Salem. Her father dies and her mother Rebecca runs off with her Indian lover. H raised by foster family and marries ne'er-do-well Gabriel Legge, ends up in India with an Indian lover and nickname Precious as Pearl. Last few pages say this is true story of Pearl Prynne, Rebecca=Hester. Story narrated with many 20th c interruptions by descendant and researcher Beigh Masters who also has an Indian lover and same initials as author.

Hilton, James Lost Horizon Cooney, Eleanor & Daniel Altieri Shangri-La NY: William Morrow & Co.: 1996 1996 Expansion Sequel Gen. Zhang plans to loot Shambala; his daughter and Hugh Conway plan to thwart him. China/Tiber politics of the 1960s.

Homer Iliad Wolf, Christa Cassandra NY: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1984 1984 Refocalization Cassandra's interior monologue about her life as she awaits death in Mycenae: becoming a priestess, the growth of propaganda and jingosim in prewar/wartime Troy, deaths of everyone, love for Aeneas, interactions with various Iliad characters, madness, women in war. Translated from the German by Jan van Huerck.

Homer Iliad Barcicco, Alessandro Iliad NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 2006 Recontextualization Retelling without gods and with psychology, from the pov of various players.

Homer Iliad Vergil Aeneid 0 Refocalization

Homer Odyssey Atwood, Margaret Penelopiad NY: Canongate, 2005 2005 Refocalization Penelope tells her story from the afterlife, where she is haunted literally and figuratively by the 12 maids hanged by Odysseus et al. They act as a Greek Chorus thoughout her story. Penelope is average and not very interesting, but I did like the unheroic versions of the adventures of O (Polyphemus: cyclops or tavern owner?) and the comments on 21st century life.

Homer Odyssey Joyce, James Ulysses Paris: Shakespeare & Co: 1924 1924 Dislocation Does it count or doesn't it? It's an emulation, but not about the characters in Homer.

Hughes, Thomas Tom Brown's School Days Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman and the Tiger New York: Anchor Books, 1999 1975 Refocalization Crossover I wanted to like Flashman, because GMF wrote the screenplays for 3 Musketeers, and I'm very fond of Flasheart (woof!). But the book is like having to endure the cigar- and whiskey-soaked tales of an old uncle who still wears pomade, hasn't had his tweed jacket dry cleaned in forever, and yet fancies himself a ladies' man. Or an elderly version of a pulp magazine with a nearly naked woman on the cover. Or John Updike. I liked the history bits, though, and the historical novel aspects of RPs and real events from an interested fictional observer's pov. The footnotes are very clever and tongue-in-cheek. And it's certainly an improvement over the bluff and hearty and unreadable original. It's very fannish in taking a marginal character and creating new adventures for him. Pastiche intro. Flashman and the Tiger is one novella and 2 short stories, including the title story which features Col. Sebastian Moran from "The Adventure of the Empty House," complete with (uncredited) cameos by Holmes & Watson.

Hughes, Thomas Tom Brown's School Days Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman NY: World Pub, 1969 1969

Hughes, Thomas Tom Brown's School Days Fraser, George MacDonald Royal Flash NY: Knopf, 1970 1970

Hughes, Thomas Tom Brown's School Days Fraser, George MacDonald Flash for Freedom! NY: Knopf, 1971 1971

Hughes, Thomas Tom Brown's School Days Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman at the Charge NY: Knopf, 1973 1973

Hughes, Thomas Tom Brown's School Days Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman in the Great Game NY: Knopf, 1975 1975

Hughes, Thomas Tom Brown's School Days Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman's Lady NY: Knopf, 1978 1977

Hughes, Thomas Tom Brown's School Days Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman and the Redskins NY: Knopf, 1982 1982

Hughes, Thomas Tom Brown's School Days Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman and the Dragon NY: Knopf, 1986 1985

Hughes, Thomas Tom Brown's School Days Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman and the Mountain of Light NY: Knopf, 1991 1990

Hughes, Thomas Tom Brown's School Days Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman on the March NY: Knopf, 2005 2005

Hughes, Thomas Tom Brown's School Days Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman and the Angel of the Lord NY: Knopf, 1995 1994

Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Ceresa, Francois Cosette ou le temps des illusions London: Macmillan, 2003 2001 Expansion Sequel Translated by Howard Curtis. Married life after 1832 for Cosette and Marius, from Marius's pov (although M is not narrator). More society life than political.

Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Kalpakian, Laura Cosette NY: HarperCollins, 1995 1995 Expansion Sequel Married life after 1832 for Cosette and Marius, from Cosette's pov (although C is not narrator). More political events than domestic. Cover drawing reminiscent of Les Mis theatre poster. RPs, 1848 and beyond.

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Orig. author	Book or character	PFF author	PFF Title	Publisher	Date	Cat 1	Cat 2	Cat 3	Notes
Du Maurier, Daphne	Rebecca	Beauman, Sally	Rebecca's Tale	New York: HarperTorch, 2001	2001	Refocalization	Moral realignment	Sequel	Authorized sequel. Doesn't make the mistake of imitating tone and style of the original. Told from several povs: Col. Julyan, Gray (historian investigating the death, thinks he might be R's son), Rebecca (by far the weakest part. R comes across as unstable and capricious, not strong, vibrant, capable. Tone and actions don't match. Doesn't match others' descriptions/captivation), and Ellie Julyan, the Col's daughter. [spoiler] Interesting connection with Mrs. deWinter: they'd returned to England to live and Max killed himself on the road/entrance gate to Manderley (maybe this is fanon?).[/spoiler] Each narrator is unreliable to some degree, everyone interprets Rebecca according to their own character. Big theme of women's independence and marriage as prison/slavery.
Du Maurier, Daphne	Rebecca	Freely, Maureen	The Other Rebecca	Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2000	1996	Dislocation			Narrated by a different, but still nameless, second wife following a first wife named Rebecca. Same long, unsympathetic, and frustrating main character. Max (Midwinter) still an unstable jackass. All of the characters in the original have counterparts here. R was a famous writer and so is Max and they're presented at first as similar to Sylvia Plath and Ted whatshisname, everyone thinks Max killed her or drove her to suicide.
Du Maurier, Daphne	Rebecca	Hill, Susan	Mrs. DeWinter	New York: Avon Books, 1993	1993	Expansion	Sequel		More of the endless tale of woe in dreary interior monologue. Nothing happens until p. 85 (of 400+) when the still nameless Mrs. deWinter discovers a funeral wreath card with "R" on it. Max and Mrs. return to England for Beatrice's funeral. [spoiler] After more traveling, get a house in England, run ins with Favell and Mrs. Danvers very late in the book. Mrs. wants children, repeatedly imagines children, inner voice keeps reminding her that Max murdered his wife. She doesn't tell Max about seeing a gynecologist, running into Favell, or that Danvers now works in the neighborhood of their new home. Max kills himself on the road/entrance gate to Manderley.[/spoiler]. And on and on and on.
Eliot, George	Mill on the Floss	Drabble, Margaret	The Waterfall	London: Wiedenfield and Nicolson, 1969	1969
Epstein, Julius et al	Casablanca	Walsh, Michael	As Time Goes By	NY: Warner Books, 1998	1998	Expansion	Sequel	Prequel	Begins immediately after film ends, and alternates sequel with prequel flashbacks to Rick's life as speakeasy manager/gangster in 1930s New York. Characters based on Dutch Schultz and others, cameos by RPs Mae West and George Raft, some names are plays on Hollywood RPs, or from the original play. RB's real name is Yitzak Baline. Meta: name play, RB passes theatre showing High Sierra, ref to Maltese Falcon. [spoiler] Louis, Victor killed--Victor motivated by revenge for father's death, kills Louis thinking Louis has betrayed operation to assassinate Czech leader, Rick and Ilsa end up together [/spoiler] Beyond awful in its destruction of beloved characters.If you love the film, don't read this book.
Galsworthy, John	Forsyte Saga	Dawson, Suleika	Forsytes	NY: Dell Books, 1994	1994
Hardy, Thomas	Tess of the D'Ubervilles	Tennant, Emma	Tess	London: HarperCollins, 1993	1993
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Scarlet Letter	Bigsby, Christopher	Hester	NY: Penguin, 1994	1994	Expansion	Prequel		Hester and Chillingworth's courtship and cold marriage, H's emigration, meets Dimmesdale on ship. Retells SL. CB says "Hester is not designed merely as a pastiche…" In love with Hester. Dull, dense, very long 185 pages.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Scarlet Letter	Bigsby, Christopher	Pearl	London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995	1995	Refocalization	Sequel		Pearl Prynne travels to the English land she inherited from Chillingworth. Gave up at p.50. Don't like the direct address of the reader by the author in all the "we"s.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Scarlet Letter	Updike, John	Roger's Version	NY; Alfred A. Knopf, 1986	1986	Dislocation			Roger the ex-minister, now prof, married to Esther...I skimmed the first 216 pages and gave up. Religion, science, and grotty sex in New England.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Scarlet Letter	Updike, John	Month of Sundays	NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975	1975	Dislocation			Some say no, some say trilogy. On this one, I say not so much. There's a Prynne and a Chilingworth, and an adulterous minister sent to rehab to write (using, you know, letters). But that's it. Grubby, icky, and misogynist in the Updike way.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Scarlet Letter	Updike, John	S.	NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988	1988	Dislocation			The jacket on this one explicitly says it's a retelling of Hester's side of SL. Set, like the others, in 20th c. Sarah Worth (Hester) leaves husband and grown daughter Pearl to follow her lover, a Hindu religious leader with an ashram in Arizona. Told in letters and tapes to family and others. Skimmed to 86 and gave up. JU is all the same. Old man and young girls, explicit unerotic sex. Like listening to upperclass WASP old boys.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Scarlet Letter	Mukherjee, Bharati	Holder of the World	NY: Ballantine Books, 1993	1994	Dislocation			Hannah Easton is born in Salem. Her father dies and her mother Rebecca runs off with her Indian lover. H raised by foster family and marries ne'er-do-well Gabriel Legge, ends up in India with an Indian lover and nickname Precious as Pearl. Last few pages say this is true story of Pearl Prynne, Rebecca=Hester. Story narrated with many 20th c interruptions by descendant and researcher Beigh Masters who also has an Indian lover and same initials as author.
Hilton, James	Lost Horizon	Cooney, Eleanor & Daniel Altieri	Shangri-La	NY: William Morrow & Co.: 1996	1996	Expansion	Sequel		Gen. Zhang plans to loot Shambala; his daughter and Hugh Conway plan to thwart him. China/Tiber politics of the 1960s.
Homer	Iliad	Wolf, Christa	Cassandra	NY: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1984	1984	Refocalization			Cassandra's interior monologue about her life as she awaits death in Mycenae: becoming a priestess, the growth of propaganda and jingosim in prewar/wartime Troy, deaths of everyone, love for Aeneas, interactions with various Iliad characters, madness, women in war. Translated from the German by Jan van Huerck.
Homer	Iliad	Barcicco, Alessandro	Iliad	NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006	2006	Recontextualization			Retelling without gods and with psychology, from the pov of various players.
Homer	Iliad	Vergil	Aeneid	0		Refocalization
Homer	Odyssey	Atwood, Margaret	Penelopiad	NY: Canongate, 2005	2005	Refocalization			Penelope tells her story from the afterlife, where she is haunted literally and figuratively by the 12 maids hanged by Odysseus et al. They act as a Greek Chorus thoughout her story. Penelope is average and not very interesting, but I did like the unheroic versions of the adventures of O (Polyphemus: cyclops or tavern owner?) and the comments on 21st century life.
Homer	Odyssey	Joyce, James	Ulysses	Paris: Shakespeare & Co: 1924	1924	Dislocation			Does it count or doesn't it? It's an emulation, but not about the characters in Homer.
Hughes, Thomas	Tom Brown's School Days	Fraser, George MacDonald	Flashman and the Tiger	New York: Anchor Books, 1999	1975	Refocalization	Crossover		I wanted to like Flashman, because GMF wrote the screenplays for 3 Musketeers, and I'm very fond of Flasheart (woof!). But the book is like having to endure the cigar- and whiskey-soaked tales of an old uncle who still wears pomade, hasn't had his tweed jacket dry cleaned in forever, and yet fancies himself a ladies' man. Or an elderly version of a pulp magazine with a nearly naked woman on the cover. Or John Updike. I liked the history bits, though, and the historical novel aspects of RPs and real events from an interested fictional observer's pov. The footnotes are very clever and tongue-in-cheek. And it's certainly an improvement over the bluff and hearty and unreadable original. It's very fannish in taking a marginal character and creating new adventures for him. Pastiche intro. Flashman and the Tiger is one novella and 2 short stories, including the title story which features Col. Sebastian Moran from "The Adventure of the Empty House," complete with (uncredited) cameos by Holmes & Watson.
Hughes, Thomas	Tom Brown's School Days	Fraser, George MacDonald	Flashman	NY: World Pub, 1969	1969
Hughes, Thomas	Tom Brown's School Days	Fraser, George MacDonald	Royal Flash	NY: Knopf, 1970	1970
Hughes, Thomas	Tom Brown's School Days	Fraser, George MacDonald	Flash for Freedom!	NY: Knopf, 1971	1971
Hughes, Thomas	Tom Brown's School Days	Fraser, George MacDonald	Flashman at the Charge	NY: Knopf, 1973	1973
Hughes, Thomas	Tom Brown's School Days	Fraser, George MacDonald	Flashman in the Great Game	NY: Knopf, 1975	1975
Hughes, Thomas	Tom Brown's School Days	Fraser, George MacDonald	Flashman's Lady	NY: Knopf, 1978	1977
Hughes, Thomas	Tom Brown's School Days	Fraser, George MacDonald	Flashman and the Redskins	NY: Knopf, 1982	1982
Hughes, Thomas	Tom Brown's School Days	Fraser, George MacDonald	Flashman and the Dragon	NY: Knopf, 1986	1985
Hughes, Thomas	Tom Brown's School Days	Fraser, George MacDonald	Flashman and the Mountain of Light	NY: Knopf, 1991	1990
Hughes, Thomas	Tom Brown's School Days	Fraser, George MacDonald	Flashman on the March	NY: Knopf, 2005	2005
Hughes, Thomas	Tom Brown's School Days	Fraser, George MacDonald	Flashman and the Angel of the Lord	NY: Knopf, 1995	1994
Hugo, Victor	Les Miserables	Ceresa, Francois	Cosette ou le temps des illusions	London: Macmillan, 2003	2001	Expansion	Sequel		Translated by Howard Curtis. Married life after 1832 for Cosette and Marius, from Marius's pov (although M is not narrator). More society life than political.
Hugo, Victor	Les Miserables	Kalpakian, Laura	Cosette	NY: HarperCollins, 1995	1995	Expansion	Sequel		Married life after 1832 for Cosette and Marius, from Cosette's pov (although C is not narrator). More political events than domestic. Cover drawing reminiscent of Les Mis theatre poster. RPs, 1848 and beyond.