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 Didnt is packed with dozens of humorous super-condensed summations of some of the most famous works of literature from many of the worlds most revered authors, including William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Emily Bront , Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, J.

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.