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Originally Posted by Anabana
I found the perfect solution to all those should-have-reads or 'want to say I've read'. It's called ShrinkLits - "Seventy of the world's towering classics cut down to size." By Maurice Sagoff
So in rhyme (and 111 pages), from Lysistrata to Catcher in the Rye, Moll Flanders to Portnoy's Complaint, Beowulf to Lolita, etc.. Here's The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan:
Christian slogs
Weary miles.
God's apostle,
Orbi, urbi.
Through bogs,
Over stiles.
A colossal
Bunyan Derby.
So can I now say I've read them all?  |
Richard Armour's _American Lit Relit_ and _The Classics Reclassified_ are old favorites of mine (funny, but not, alas, in rhyme--nor in ebook).