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ShrinkLits: Seventy of the World's Towering Classics Cut Down to Size

Maurice Sagoff and Roslyn Schwartz (ill.)

Sagoff, Maurice; Roslyn Schwartz (ill.);

ShrinkLits: Seventy of the World's Towering Classics Cut Down to Size

Whizzard, 1980, 111 pages

ISBN 0233973141, 9780233973142

topics: |  literature | digest


Extremely brief summaries of major works of literature; poetry, also
non-fiction.  Often in rhyming verse.

Contents

Introduction
William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White
   Preface ShrinkLit: Elements of Style
Daniel Defoe
   Moll Flanders
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
   The Courtship of Miles Standish
Beowulf
Robert Browning
   The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Sinclair Lewis
   Babbit
Mary Shelley
   Frankenstein
Franz Kafka
   Metamorphosis
Robert Louis Stevenson
   Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Jules Verne
   Around the World in Eighty Days
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   Kubla Khan
J.D. Salinger
   The Catcher in the Rye
Charles Dickens
   Oliver Twist
Dante Alighieri
   Inferno
Sophocles
   Antigone
William Shakespeare
   King Lear
George Eliot
   Silas Marner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Harriet Beecher Stowe
   Uncle Tom's Cabin
Washington Irving
   Rip Van Winkle
D.H. Lawrence
   Lady Chatterley's Lover
Charlotte Bronte
   Jane Eyre
Thomas Paine
   Common Sense
Caius Julius Caesar
   Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic Wars
Ernest Hemmingway
   A Farewell to Arms
Edmond Rostand
   Cyrano de Bergerac
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
   The Song of Hiawatha
F. Scott Fitzgerald
   The Great Gatsby
Thomas Gray
   Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Henrik Ibsen
   A Doll's House
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
   Evangeline
Alexandre Dumas
   The Count of Monte Cristo
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
   Crime and Punishment
J.R.R. Tolkien
   The Hobbit (two versions)
Vladimir Nabokov
   Lolita
The Self-Help Books
Phillip Roth
   Portnoy's Complaint
Alex Comfort
   The Joy of Sex
Aristophanes
   Lysistrata
Alfred C. Kinsey and others
   Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (The Kinsey Report)
Immanuel Kant
   Critique of Pure Reason
Lewis Carroll
   Alice in Wonderland
Kung-Tzu (Confucius)
   The Shih Ching
John Bunyan
   The Pilgrim's Progress
Voltaire
   Candide
Edgar Allen Poe
   The Raven
Thornton Wilder
   The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Oliver Goldsmith
   The Deserted Village
Herman Kahn
   On Thermonuclear War
Izaak Walton
   The Compleat Angler
Miguel de Cervantes
   Don Quixote
Henry David Thoreau
   Walden
E.F. Schumacher
   Small is Beautiful
Pygmalion
   Sappho
Gulliver's Travels
   George Bernard Shaw
The Communist Manifesto
   Jonathan Swift
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (The "Little Red Book")
   Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Thomas Hardy
   Return of the Native
Herman Melville
   Moby Dick or the White Whale
Charles Darwin
   The Origin of Species
Rod McKuen
   Listen to the Warm
David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace
   The Book of Lists
Daniel Defoe
   Robinson Crusoe
John Stuart Mill
   Principles of Political Economy
Jack London
   Call of the Wild
Geoffrey Chaucer
   The Canterbury Tales
The Sonnets of William Shakespeare (1-17)
The Sonnets of William Shakespeare (18-154)


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