Booker Prize chair Peter Stothard thinks the rise of book bloggers will harm literature. But when broken down, his comments aren’t about bloggers at all – they’re about what readers want, and to a lesser extent, the newspaper industry.
Most novelists create their characters by telling us what they are. Jules Verne, on the other hand, goes to great lengths to tell us what his protagonist Mr Phileas Fogg Esq. is not. “Though he was undoubtedly English, Phileas Fogg …
When adapting a novel for film, many filmmakers (nobly) feel obliged to retain some modicum of loyalty to the original text. Not so, the makers of the 1956 adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic Around the World in Eighty Days, or its 2004 Disney …
