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Originally Posted by stumped
Personally, and heretically, I think several classics could benefit from an abridged dramatisation. Keep the plot and the dialogue, lose a few hundred pages of descriptions..
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I'm not usually one for abridging, but you're right on the classics of this type. I remember reading Dracula and loving the beginning with some genuinely chilling moments, but then the story suddenly started to drag with a ridiculous amount of Victorian, melodramatic, wordy, flowery, repetitive dialogue for chapter after chapter in the middle
