to kick back, linger with a beverage and a book in the shade.
I recently read a Goodreads Blog posted June 14th by Hayley Igarashi titled: "6 Famous
Books That Almost Ended Very Differently."
Let me share 2 of her highlighted books here:
"The ending you know: Pip reunites with the widowed
Estella, his first love, and believes they will never part
again --or, in his words, "I saw no shadow of another parting
from her.""
"The ending that might have been: In his first draft,
Dickens ended his novel with Pip and a remarried
Estella meeting, shaking hands, and parting ways with no
real hope of a future together. Dickens' friend Edward
Buller-Lytton complained this ending was too depressing
and that no one would enjoy reading it." (Thank you Edward
Buller-Lytton! I remember reading this in high school, how
would I react to it now?)
"A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway "The ending you know: ...is bleak. Frederic's lover dies in childbirth, prompting these dismal final lines: "It was like saying goodbye to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain."" The ending that might have been: Hemingway wrote over forty different endings to his novel. Perhaps the biggest departure is this almost upbeat variation: "When I woke the sun was coming in the open window and I smelled the spring morning after the rain and saw the sun on the trees in the courtyard and for that moment it was all the way it had been."" (We have close to discussing a Hemingway book but so far it is not in our discussion line up.) See the entire blog posting here: www.goodreads.com/blog/show/941-6-famous-books-that-almost-ended-very-differently?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2017-07&utm_content=mainmisc&ref_=pe_3097180_245288860 |