If the Gods Laugh
 First US edition | |
| Author | Rosita Forbes |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Romance |
| Publisher | Thornton Butterworth (UK) Macaulay (US) |
Publication date | 1925 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
If the Gods Laugh is a 1925 romantic adventure novel by the British writer and explorer Rosita Forbes.[1] It is set against the backdrop of the Italian colonization of Libya.
Film adaptation
[edit]In 1927 it was adapted into the American silent film Fighting Love directed by Nils Olaf Chrisander and starring Jetta Goudal, Victor Varconi and Henry B. Walthall.[2][3]
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Liggins, Emma & Nolan, Elizabeth. Women's Writing of the First World War. Routledge, 2019.
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
- Teo, Hsu-Ming. Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels. University of Texas Press, 2012.
- Watson, George & Willison, Ian R. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Volume 4. CUP, 1972.
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