Carnival

Author	Compton Mackenzie
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Drama
Publication date	1912
Media type	Print

Carnival is a 1912 novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. A London ballet dancer falls in love with an aristocrat, but refuses to become his mistress and instead marries a Cornish farmer with ultimately tragic consequences. It was a commercial and critical success on its release.^[1]

Film adaptations

It has been turned into films on three occasions: a 1916 American silent film The Ballet Girl directed by George Irving, a 1931 British film Dance Pretty Lady directed by Anthony Asquith and a 1946 British version Carnival by Stanley Haynes.^[2]

References

Bibliography

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
McLean, Adrienne L. Dying Swans and Madmen: Ballet, the Body, and Narrative Cinema. Rutgers University Press, 2008.

Works by Compton Mackenzie

Novels

Carnival (1912)
Sinister Street (1913)
Guy and Pauline (1915)
Sylvia Scarlett (1918)
Sylvia and Michael (1919)
Poor Relations (1919)
The Vanity Girl (1920)
Rich Relatives (1921)
Coral (1925)
Fairy Gold (1926)
Rogues and Vagabonds (1927)
Vestal Fire (1927)
Extraordinary Women (1928)
Extremes Meet (1928)
The Three Couriers (1929)
April Fools (1930)
Buttercups and Daisies (1931)
Our Street (1931)
Water on the Brain (1933)
The Darkening Green (1934)
Figure of Eight (1936)
The Four Winds of Love (1937)
The Red Tapeworm (1941)
The Monarch of the Glen (1941)
Keep the Home Guard Turning (1943)
Whisky Galore (1947)
Hunting the Fairies (1949)
The Rival Monster (1952)
Ben Nevis Goes East (1954)
Thin Ice (1956)
Rockets Galore (1957)
The Lunatic Republic (1959)
Mezzotint (1961)
The Stolen Soprano (1965)
Paper Lives (1966)

Adaptations

The Ballet Girl (1916)
Sinister Street (1922)
Dance Pretty Lady (1931)
Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
Carnival (1946)
Whisky Galore! (1949)
Rockets Galore! (1958)
Sinister Street (1969)
Monarch of the Glen (2000-2005)
Whisky Galore! (2016)