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Abridged Classics: Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn't - Page 3

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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The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
82
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot)
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot)
83
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
84
Tarzan of the Apes (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
Tarzan of the Apes (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
85
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
86
Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
87
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
88
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
89
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
90
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide (Voltaire)
91
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
92
The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
93
The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe)
94
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
95
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
96
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
97
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
98
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
99
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
100
Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
101
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
102
The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha (Various)
The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha (Various)
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