Twitterature
Author | : Alexander Aciman |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2009-11-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780141047713 |
ISBN-13 | : 0141047712 |
Rating | : 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Perhaps you once asked yourself, 'What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince his words, muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub?' No doubt such questions would have been swiftly resolved were the Prince of Denmark a registered user on Twitter.com. This, in essence, is Twitterature . Here are over 60 of the greatest works of literature - from Beowulf to Bronte, Kafka to Kerouac, Dostoevsky to Dickens - distilled in the voice of Twitter to their pithiest essence, providing everything you need to master the literature of the civilised world, while relieving you of the task of reading it.