"Fake" Classics? (NOT questioning what books can/should be classics)

By windcocoa89

Sorry for the kind of lousy title—I honestly couldn’t think of a better way to say what I mean, heh. I just learned that Avellaneda’s second part of *Don Quixote* came out before Cervantes had finished (and published) the “real” second part. That immediately reminded me of that whole “translation” of Stoker’s *Dracula*, *Powers of Darkness*—which didn’t feel like a true translation so much as its own take on the English book. Now I’m wondering how often this kind of thing happened with other classics that were published before copyright got more strict. If anyone knows of more stories like that, I’d really love to hear them.