Want to read more than 100 famous works of literature in no time? John Atkinson, the cartoonist at Wrong Hands, has the perfect book for you. In Abridged Classics, just published by HarperCollins, he compiles super-succinct summaries of literary classics in the light-hearted, humorous style that his blog readers have grown to love. Here’s a sample of what you’ll find in these pages.
Visit John’s site, Wrong Hands, or buy the book, Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn’t.
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Love the irony – written and drawn.
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Love it!
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I absolutely love these, I wasn’t expecting to laugh but I did.
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They seem to be nice books, I hope I can get some in ebook, they are cheaper.
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Absolutely hilarious! And very true.
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hahaah the illustrations are especially lovely!
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This is a good read. Short explanations.
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Hilarious
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I love reading, novels, short stories, news reports, anything I could get my hands on.
But now I’m a microbiology with 90% of what I read being novels. Now I’m trying to find my way through blogging part-time. Pssh
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John Crace’s digested reads in the Guardian are worth a read
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Oh my gosh, this made my day. So funny!
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Ha this made my day!
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As someone who has read a few of those books it’s hilarious how accurate his two sentence summaries are!
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I have just read six books in less than 30 seconds. That’s great, thank you!
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❤️ this 🙌🏻🙌🏻
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MAN!!! If only I would have read this while I was still in high school. This would have helped me pass my lit class with flying colors. Lol, love it 😆
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you have just saved me heaps of spare time by not having to read the above. However I have already read the LOTR trilogy. Working in Retail, I can understand why there is so much fighting over Middle Earths return policy
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this is hilarious 😀
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Love it! 😍 I needed a little funny today, thank you so much!
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