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Abridged Classics: Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn't - Page 2

Finally a practical reward for your diligent reading efforts; the more classics you've read, the more you'd enjoy the humour in the source book. It is 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..."
Examples:
The Scarlet Letter: "Puritan tale of adultery, mockery, and embroidery."
Jane Eyre: "Workplace romance gets fiery."
The Odyssey: "War veteran takes forever to get home, then kills everyone."
A Farewell to Arms: "There are no winners in war. And very few adjectives."
Charlotte's Web: "Clever web designer saves a pig."
BTW, IMHO, this challenge also makes a good small-scale TBR list, at least if you dropped 'In Search of Lost Time', which is summarised as "Smell of cake reminds a guy of stuff. Four thousand pages of stuff."
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984 (George Orwell)
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Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
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The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
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The Return of the Native (Thomas Hardy)
The Return of the Native (Thomas Hardy)
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Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
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The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
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Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma (Jane Austen)
49
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (J.R.R. Tolkien)
50
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
51
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
52
Ivanov (Anton Chekhov)
Ivanov (Anton Chekhov)
53
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
54
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
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Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
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Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
57
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
58
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
59
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
60
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Radcliffe)
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Radcliffe)
61
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
62
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
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The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)
The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)
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Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
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The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
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To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
67
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
68
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
69
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
70
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
71
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
72
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
73
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
74
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
75
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
77
Richard III (William Shakespeare)
Richard III (William Shakespeare)
78
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
79
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
80
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)
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