11 March 2012, 11:16 AM
fjp451A Simplified Bibliography
So, that makes Something Wicked and the mystery trilogy (Death Is a Lonely Business, A Graveyard for Lunatics, Let's All Kill Constance) then are RB's true natural novels?
Curious but true, I was pondering this precise topic of "RB novels" (in preparation for upcoming seminars) before the posts began here?!
11 March 2012, 11:36 AM
philnicNot forgetting Fahrenheit 451.
However, once we start considering the origin of even these novels, we soon find that they all started as something else!
Fahrenheit 451 - started as a novella, The Fireman
Something Wicked - started as a short story (Black Ferris) and film treatment (Dark Carnival)
Death is a Lonely Business - started (if I recall correctly) as an unpublished short story.
11 March 2012, 07:11 PM
fjp451True F451, from Pedestrian "and" Fireman...right!?
SWTWC, true, phil! Intended for Gene Kelley on the big screen originally.
Mr. B has had to maneuver too many magnificent metaphors, a daunting challenge to satisfy within solitary novels!!
13 March 2012, 08:10 PM
Doug Spauldingquote:
Originally posted by philnic:
Fahrenheit 451 - started as a novella, The Fireman
But had its earliest beginnings, I learned last evening at
Jon Eller's lecture, as another novel, which Ray abandoned. We were blessed with a few snippets from it and it was much darker than 451.
13 March 2012, 08:50 PM
Linnl Where Ignorant Armies Clash by Night. ? Found in
Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. The short story "The Smile" originated there.