The Beguiled is a 1966 novel written by Thomas P. Cullinan.
A Union soldier recuperates at a girls school in Confederate Virginia during the American Civil War.
The novel was adapted into two films, in 1971 starring Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Hartman, directed by Don Siegel and in 2017 starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell, directed by Sofia Coppola.