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Abridged Classics: Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn't

Finally a practical reward for your diligent reading efforts; the more classics you've read, the more you'd enjoy the humour in the source book. It is 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..."
Examples:
The Scarlet Letter: "Puritan tale of adultery, mockery, and embroidery."
Jane Eyre: "Workplace romance gets fiery."
The Odyssey: "War veteran takes forever to get home, then kills everyone."
A Farewell to Arms: "There are no winners in war. And very few adjectives."
Charlotte's Web: "Clever web designer saves a pig."
BTW, IMHO, this challenge also makes a good small-scale TBR list, at least if you dropped 'In Search of Lost Time', which is summarised as "Smell of cake reminds a guy of stuff. Four thousand pages of stuff."
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Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn't (John Atkinson)
Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn't (John Atkinson)
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
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Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
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War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
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Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
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Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
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Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
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MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
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The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
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Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
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The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
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The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
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The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)
The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)
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Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
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The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey (Homer)
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The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad (Homer)
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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
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Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
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Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
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The Republic (Plato)
The Republic (Plato)
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Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
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Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
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The Pearl (John Steinbeck)
The Pearl (John Steinbeck)
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The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
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A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Othello (William Shakespeare)
Othello (William Shakespeare)
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On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
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The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
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Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
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Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie)
Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie)
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Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
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Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
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