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Twitterature

The World's Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter

Author: Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin  

Including a full glossary of online acronyms and Twitterary terms to aid the amateur, this title provides what you need to master the literature of the civilized world, while relieving you of the burdensome task of reading it.

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Including a full glossary of online acronyms and Twitterary terms to aid the amateur, this title provides what you need to master the literature of the civilized world, while relieving you of the burdensome task of reading it.

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Description

Perhaps you once asked yourself, 'What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince his words, muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub?' No doubt such troubling questions would have been swiftly resolved were the Prince of Denmark a registered user on Twitter.com. This, in essence, is Twitterature.

Here you will find seventy-five of the greatest works of western literature – from Beowulf to Bronte, from Kafka to Kerouac, and from Dostoevsky to Dickens– each distilled through the voice of Twitter to its purest, pithiest essence. Including a full glossary of online acronyms and Twitterary terms to aid the amateur, Twitterature provides everything you need to master the literature of the civilised world, while relieving you of the burdensome task of reading it.

From Hamlet: WTF IS POLONIUS DOING BEHIND THE CURTAIN???

From Dante's Inferno: I'm havin a midlife crisis. Lost in the woods. Shoulda brought my iPhone.

From Oedipus: PARTY IN THEBES!!! Nobody cares I killed that old dude, plus this woman is all over me. Total MILF.

From Paradise Lost: OH MY GOD I'M IN HELL.

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Critic Reviews

“'Hilarious' -- Sunday Times”

Sunday Times
Wittily irreverent, scandalous, but sure to inspire a cult following -- Daily Mail Daily Mail
'An irreverent, profane and sometimes brilliant collection' -- Reuters Reuters
'The trouble with Twitter is, I think, that too many twits might make a twt' -- David Cameron David Cameron
'This is exactly the kind of thing you'd expect University of Chicago students to come up with' -- Professor W J T Mitchell
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'A tool to aid the digestion of great literature' -- Guardian
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About the Author

Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin are undergraduates at the University of Chicago. Alexander's journalism has appeared in The New York Times and New York Sun and Emmett is a contributor to the Huffington Post. They are both less than twenty years old.

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
5th November 2009
Pages
160
ISBN
9780141047713

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