Abridged Classics: Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read (But Probably Didn’t)

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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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  30. In the style of Trump, I can summarize Gatsby very easily: “Well, I think Gatsby was great for numerous reasons. He was a man of great greatness, which most people named Gatsby would be. But he was a man of greatness but he was also a man who did something that was a very great thing to do at that time. Ten years before or 20 years before, what he was doing would never have even been thought possible. So he did something that was a very great thing to do, and especially at that time. And other characters in the novel failed, I think to a certain extent, because of their personality. You know? It was just that personality. Very severe, very exclusive. In other words, people couldn’t come in. And people didn’t like him. I mean people didn’t like him. That is what was great about the Great Gatsby!”

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