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Twitterature : The World's Greatest Books Now Presented in Twenty Tweets or Less

By: Alexander Aciman, Emmett Rensin

Twitterature : The World's Greatest Books Now Presented in Twenty Tweets or Less

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ISBN: 9780141047713

Format: Paperback
Published: 1st October 2009

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As reviewed by Toni Whitmont in the December Booktopia Buzz. Click here to see all of Booktopia's Newsletters.

WTF is Polonius Doing Behind the Curtain?

Yes, 70 classics, in 150 characters or less. From Beowulf to Bronte, and Kafka to Kerouac and what a surprise, the authors are barely the drinking age in many American states. Is this a good thing? I don't know but it certainly is funny.

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From Oedipus: "Party in Thebes!!! Nobody cares I killed that old dude, plus this woman is all over me. Total MILF. "

From Paradise Lost: "OH My God I'm in Hell. 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. From Hamlet: What is Polonius doing behind the curtain?

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.

From Dante's Inferno: I'm havin a midlife crisis. Lost in the woods. Shoulda brought my iPhone.

Author Biography: Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin are undergraduates at the University of Chicago. Alexander's journalism has appeared in The New York Times and New York Sun and Emmett is a contributor to the Huffington Post. They are both less than twenty years old.