Neil Gaiman’s “Snow, Glass, and Apples” is an interesting take on Snow White.
Weird fact – Although almost all of the Sherlock Holmes stories are written from the POV of Watson, and a handful of the later ones purportedly by Holmes (The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane), two of the stories written by Doyle are told entirely from an anonymous third-person point of view – One is The Mazarin Stone. The other is His Last BowIf you’ve read them, you’ll know why.
The Mazarin Stone started life as a stage play that, as far as I know, was never produced.
There’s obviously a certain amount of this in the Flashman novels. Naturally usually with the conceit that Flashman is telling it as it really was. Tom Brown’s Schooldays, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Empty House”, etc.
The most elaborate is Royal Flash supposedly being the real-life events transmuted by Hope into The Prisoner of Zenda. But with Fraser’s real point being that Hope’s plotting was merely adequate given the set-up.
This is touched on in Johnson’s film Hercules. Near the start is Hercules recounting his slaying of the Lernean Hydra - they were a band of men.
Well that’s what I was wondering. If it happened at all.
The author could have done so much better if he had titled his story It’s Just Me…
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies is very much like that. It includes overlapping events spanning a couple of generations from the perspectives of at least three different characters. That is one of the book’s main themes.
Gregory Maguire actually tackled several other stories besides Oz.
And Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes is an interesting take on several tales, including telling the tale of Goldilocks from the POV of the bears (this brazen hussy breaks into our house, eats our food, breaks our furniture, and sleeps on our beds).
The Other Log of Phileas Fogg by Philip Jose Farmer. Around the World in 80 Days was only half the story. Typical Farmer craziness. I don’t remember much of the book, but I probably would have gotten much more out of it had I read the Verne book.
I enjoyed that one.
Harry Turtledove wrote a pair of stories about a time traveller, one (“Forty, Counting Down”) told from his perspective and the other (“Twenty-One, Counting Up”) from the perspective of his 19-year-younger self.
The best-known novel by Jean Rhys is Wide Sargasso Sea, the story of Bertha Mason, the first wife of Mr Rochester in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.