Smuggling in fiction
Cover of the 1915 edition of Doctor Syn: A Smuggler Tale of the Romney Marsh
This list of smuggling in fiction includes works of fiction (in both prose and poetry) where smuggling is a prominent theme. Smuggling is a common trope or theme in literature and can be found in a wide range of works – from the 18th century novels of Charlotte Turner Smith to Prosper Mérimée's 19th century novella, Carmen (the inspiration for numerous films as well as Bizet's opera, Carmen)[1] to the James Bond novel (and later film) Diamonds are Forever.
List of works
Movies
- Contraband, 2012
Novels
- Eric Ambler: The Light of Day (1962) (filmed as Topkapi)
- Eric Ambler: Passage of Arms (1959)
- Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky (1949)[2]
- Samuel Rutherford Crockett: The Raiders (1894) – a novel about smugglers in Galloway[3]
- George Payne Rainsford James: The Smuggler: A tale[4]
- Daphne du Maurier: Jamaica Inn (1936) – a novel about both smugglers and wreckers in Cornwall[5]
Poster for an 1896 American production of Carmen - J. Meade Falkner: Moonfleet (1898)
- Ian Fleming: Diamonds Are Forever (1956)
- Raelynn Hillhouse: Rift Zone (2004)
- Mollie Hunter: The Lothian Run (1971) – a novel for young readers about Jacobite smugglers.[6]
- Prosper Mérimée: Carmen (1845)[1]
- Charlotte Turner Smith: The Old Manor House (1793)[7]
- Barbara Smucker: Underground to Canada (1977) – children's novel about the Underground Railroad which smuggled escaped slaves from the American South into Canada.[8]
- Russell Thorndike: The Doctor Syn novels – a series of seven novels about Doctor Syn, the Smuggler of Romney Marsh, published between 1915 and 1944
Poetry
- Rudyard Kipling: A Smuggler's Song (1906) – this poem appears in "'Hal o' the Draft", one of the stories in Puck of Pook's Hill[9]
- James Sheridan Knowles: The Smuggler (1810)[10]
Plays and operas
- Georges Bizet: Carmen (1875) – In act 3 of the opera, Carmen and her lover join a camp of gypsy smugglers[11]
- Winsome Pinnock: Mules (1996) – a play about Jamaican women working as mules for cocaine smugglers[12]
- Bedřich Smetana: The Kiss (1876) – an opera based on a novel by Karolina Světlá[13]
- Michael Wall: Amongst Barbarians (1989) – a play based on a true story of two English drug-traffickers executed in Malaysia[14]
References
- 1 2 Perriam, Christopher and Davies, Ann, Carmen: from silent film to MTV, Rodopi, 2005, pp. 55–56 and passim. ISBN 90-420-1964-6
- ↑ Kuhne, Dave, African settings in contemporary American novels, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999, p. 115. ISBN 0-313-31040-8
- ↑ Crockett, Samuel Rutherford, The Raiders, T. Fisher Unwin, 1894
- ↑ James, George Payne Rainsford, The Smuggler: A tale Harper & Bros., 1868 (full text)
- ↑ Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue, Daphne du Maurier: Writing, identity and the gothic imagination, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998, pp. 71–72 and passim. ISBN 0-312-21146-5
- ↑ Scottish Book Trust, The Lothian Run
- ↑ McGavran, James Holt Jr, "Smuggling, Poaching, and the Revulsion against Kinship in Charlotte Smith's The Old Manor House", Women's Writing, Volume 16, Issue 1 May 2009, pp. 20–38
- ↑ The Blade, Toledo, "Author's Twelve Books Educated Children", 1 August 2003, p. B4
- ↑ Kipling, Rudyard, Puck of Pook's Hill, Echo Library, 2007, p. 102. ISBN 1-4068-1915-8
- ↑ Miles, Alfred Henry, The poets and the poetry of the century, Volume 2, Hutchinson & Co., 1897, p. 263
- ↑ Zanger, Anat, Film remakes as ritual and disguise: from Carmen to Ripley, Amsterdam University Press, 2006, p. 65. ISBN 90-5356-784-4
- ↑ Curtis, Nick, "Clunking Mules", Evening Standard, 11 March 2008
- ↑ Earl of Harewood, (ed.), The New Kobbé's Complete Opera Book, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1976, p. 736. ISBN 0-370-10020-4
- ↑ Ben Joned, Saleh, "Barbarians among Barbarians", New Straits Times, 7 October 1992, p. 35
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