It's Lit: Films Inspired by Classics

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15-year-old Cher, the matchmaking Beverly Hills High schooler, has shopping and boys on her mind. She leads a hectic lifestyle but keeps it all together until she starts to fall in love and finds she's 'clueless'. A loose adaptation of Emma, Jane Austen's 19th-century comedy of manners.

2) Emma

Author

Austen, Jane

Series

Emma

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Content with her life and not interested in marriage, Emma Woodhouse, a rich and beautiful heiress, causes complications with her matchmaking schemes.

3) Easy A

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After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean-cut high school girl sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in 'The Scarlet Letter, ' which she is currently studying in school. Hoping to become popular, she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.

4) The scarlet letter

Author

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Series

Dover thrift editions

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Book - Hardback, Book - Paperback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print - Hardback

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In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.

5) John Tucker must die

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When the class-overachiever, the head cheerleader, and the vegan lover discover they're all dating the same guy - namely the star basketball player John Tucker - the girls decide to recruit a bashful new girl named Kate to become the ideal girl to break Tucker's bad boy heart. But as Kate uses the girls' combined wiles to lure Tucker, his interest gives her a social standing she's never had before. But the intoxicating experience may cost her a chance...

6) The merry wives of Windsor

Author

Shakespeare, William

Series

30-Minute Shakespeare

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Book, Book - Paperback, eAudiobook, eBook

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Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...

7) She's all that

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A high school jock makes a bet that he can turn an unattractive girl into the school's prom queen.

8) Pygmalion: a romance in five acts

Author

Shaw, Bernard

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Professor Higgins succeeds in transforming an unkempt London flower girl into a society belle.

9) Cruel intentions

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An unscrupulous student gets more than he anticipated when he attempts to deflower the Headmaster's beautiful, virgin daughter.

10) Les liaisons dangereuses

Author

Laclos, Choderlos de

Series

Oxford world's classics

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12) Othello

Author

Shakespeare, William

Series

Graphic Shakespeare (Magic Wagon)

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

13) She's the man

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Viola becomes furious when she learns that her high school, Cornwall, has just cut the girl's soccer team. So furious, in fact, that she takes advantage of her twin brother Sebastian skipping town for a few weeks to take his place at his school, Illyria, so she can join the soccer team there. But her disguise as her brother leads to major complications when she falls in love with her soccer-playing roommate and the girl he's in love with falls in...

14) Twelfth night

Author

Shakespeare, William

Series

Timeless Shakespeare

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

15) 10 things I hate about you

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Cameron is the new kid in school who becomes smitten with the beautiful Bianca. But Bianca's overprotective and domineering father forbids Bianca to date unless her older sister Kat, a surly and hostile senior, does. In a bid to get Kat a boyfriend, Cameron sets up a plan to have the school stud, Joey Donnar, bribe Patrick Verona, an outcast senior with a rumor-filled past, to take Kat out on dates so he can go to the school's homecoming dance with...

16) The Taming of the shrew

Author

Shakespeare, William

Series

Sourcebooks Shakespeare

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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The Taming of the Shrew (1592) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. Written between 1590 and 1592, The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's earliest works. Frequently critiqued by scholars for its demeaning portrayal of Katherina and for Petruchio's violence, the play has also been considered as an ironic treatment of the inequality experienced by women in marriage. The Taming of the Shrew has served as source material for countless film and...