adaptation
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He hopes that with this new adaptation, anyone that once saw the story as "brutal and pessimistic" can see that there is a "lot of love" in the way Golding and Thorne write the characters.
From BBC
The author has sold more than 50 million copies of his books worldwide, and many have received film and television adaptations over the years.
From Los Angeles Times
A movie adaptation of “The Long Walk,” originally published as a novel in 1979, was released last year.
The arrival of the Cartoon Network in India and a blockbuster television adaptation of the Hindu epic "Mahabharata" dented sales.
From Barron's
Paradoxically, at virtually the same time, the many stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which dramatized, or melodramatized, the brutality of slavery, were an enduring sensation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
