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    Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn't
    Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn't
    Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn't
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    Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn't

    By John Atkinson

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    A collection of irreverent summations of more than 100 well-known works of literature, from Anna Karenina to Wuthering Heights, cleverly described in the fewest words possible and accompanied with funny color illustrations.

    Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn’t is packed with dozens of humorous super-condensed summations of some of the most famous works of literature from many of the world’s most revered authors, including William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Margaret Atwood, James Joyce, Plato, Ernest Hemingway, Dan Brown, Ayn Rand, and Herman Melville.

    From "Old ladies convince a guy to ruin Scotland" (Macbeth) to "Everyone is sad. It snows." (War and Peace), these clever, humorous synopses are sure to make book lovers smile.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJun 5, 2018
    ISBN9780062747860
    Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn't
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    John Atkinson

    John Atkinson is an avid reader and writer of all things 'fiction'. Preferring Horror and Fantasy he tries to meld both into imaginative stories that are both gripping and chilling. He doesn't like marmite.

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      Abridged Classics - John Atkinson

      Dedication

      To Dylan, Jacob, and Madz

      Epigraph

      Classic. A book people praise and don’t read.

      – MARK TWAIN

      Contents

      Cover

      Title Page

      Dedication

      Epigraph

      Ulysses

      Moby Dick

      War and Peace

      Beowulf

      Oliver Twist

      Walden

      Macbeth

      Brave New World

      In Search of Lost Time

      The Sun also Rises

      Naked Lunch

      The Picture of Dorian Gray

      The Brothers Karamazov

      To Kill a Mockingbird

      The Catcher in the Rye

      The Faerie Queen

      Animal Farm

      Pride and Prejudice

      The Odyssey

      The Iliad

      Don Quixote

      Crime and Punishment

      Catch-22

      Heart of Darkness

      The Republic

      Wuthering Heights

      Robinson Crusoe

      The Pearl

      The Grapes of Wrath

      A Farewell to Arms

      The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

      Othello

      On the Road

      The Canterbury Tales

      The Divine Comedy: Inferno

      Peter Pan

      Treasure Island

      Frankenstein

      Gulliver’s Travels

      1984

      Great Expectations

      The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

      The Aeneid

      The Return of the Native

      Sense and Sensibility

      The Trial

      Emma

      The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

      The Great Gatsby

      King Lear

      Ivanov

      The Crucible

      Ethan Frome

      Anna Karenina

      Jane Eyre

      Twelfth Night

      The Da Vinci Code

      Romeo and Juliet

      The Mysteries of Udolpho

      The Scarlet Letter

      Little Women

      The Pilgrim’s Progress

      Madame Bovary

      The Stranger

      To the Lighthouse

      The Metamorphosis

      Waiting for Godot

      Hamlet

      Of Mice and Men

      Lolita

      The Fountainhead

      Oedipus Rex

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