The Masters Reimagined: Speculative Twists on the Classics, a SFF Anthology Paperback, Signed

Paperback, Signed by Elle Andrews Patt. Free Shipping by USPS Media Mail in Continental USA - 2-8 business days. Email elle@elleandrewspatt for other shipping options and dedications.

From characters that disappear to odd occurrences to open endings, the masters who penned today’s literary classics left a lot of room for speculation. Have you ever wondered what inspired Kipling to pen The Jungle Book? Who else Macbeth’s witches influenced? Why Mr. Rochester’s first wife went mad in Jane Eyre? How the events of Treasure Island would unfold if the pirates flew spaceships instead? If Eveline were escaping Earth instead of Ireland? What an American free spirit like Holly Golightly from Breakfast At Tiffany’s might encounter in her new life as a Brazilian wife? How Anna Karenina might have escaped her death? What the Count of Monto Cristo and Alice In Wonderland might be like together? If Jonah’s whale had been a submarine? Why Ishmael never mentioned Mr. Bulkington again after the Pequod left Nantucket on the hunt for Moby Dick? Escape into the speculative worlds of ten award-winning science-fiction and fantasy authors for answers that will fire up your imagination as you discover the essence of these timeless tales in stories that invite you to re-think everything you know about the classics, whether you've ever read them or not.

Elle's included novelette: "Regarding Mr. Bulkington: The Pequod's Pilot" - ​Ahab. Ishmael. Mr. Bulkington. Some secrets are worth keeping for a lifetime.

At the start of Herman Melville’s American masterpiece, Moby Dick, narrator Ishmael takes pains to describe the appearance in Peter Coffin’s New Bedford inn of Mr. Bulkington, but then never mentions him again after the Pequod puts out to sea. In Regarding Mr. Bulkington, Ishmael finally loosens his tongue and reveals that the power behind Ahab's mastery of the sea lies within the mysterious skills possessed by Mr. Bulkington and his fantastical destiny. WINNER- Royal Palm Literary Award, Florida Writers Association National Contest.