Everyone from Elia Kazan to Steven Spielberg got shown the door. Since his death two years ago, his agents have continued the "no adaptations" mantra. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. As wonderful as the movie was, it isn't enough. You have to read the book in order to get the full impact of Scout's story, a multilayered account of growing up among prejudice in the deep South. Like Salinger, Lee has always been very protective of her story.
Now 85 years old, Lee is in ill health with reported memory loss and partially deaf and blind, so transferring her masterpiece to an electronic format might not be at the top of her to-do list. Lee long ago made her distinct preference for ink-and-paper books well known: She sent O, The OprahMagazine a letter in that stated, in part, "Can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer?
Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up -- some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.
Harry Potter and the fill in the blank by J. The Boy Who Lived isn't in e-book format even though the series was completed more than five years ago.
Of course, since she's already richer than Queen Elizabeth, Rowling might not be in any particular hurry to rake in more sales, but we're pretty sure her publishers don't share that attitude. Rowling has been promising e-book versions of her witchy series for more than a year, including an October delivery date, but nothing has hit the shelves so far. Technology is at least partially to blame in this instance. There still isn't a universal e-book format and each version released costs money.
So let's see, seven books, thousands of pages, dozens of illustrations, several formats Update: The Harry Potter series has now been released in e-book format. Compatible with all the major e-book readers, and available in English in U. Rowlings website. Read and download J. Free book The Catcher in the Rye by J. Title: The Catcher in the Rye. Author : J. Pages : pages. Publisher : Back Bay Books. Language : eng. ISBN : Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.
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