Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read But Probably Didn't, Hardcover/John Atkinson

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 and accompanied with funny color illustrations. Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn't is packed with dozens of humorous super-condensed summations of some of the most famous works of literature from many of the world's most revered authors, including William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Emily Bront , Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Margaret Atwood, James Joyce, Plato, Ernest Hemingway, Dan Brown, Ayn Rand, and Herman Melville. From "Old ladies convince a guy to ruin Scotland" ( Macbeth ) to "Everyone is sad. It snows." ( War and Peace ), these clever, humorous synopses are sure to make book lovers smile.