A picture is worth one thousand words, but in today’s Telegraph there is a man who has rendered literary masterpieces down to 140 characters, the maximum Twitter allows.

So Catcher in the Rye simply becomes:
jdsalinger: Rich kid thinks everyone is fake except for his little sister. Has breakdown. @markchapman is now following @johnlennon

Pride and Prejudice is shortened to:
janeaustin: Woman meets man called Darcy who seems horrible. He turns out to be nice really. They get together.

or Bridget Jones’s Diary
helenfielding: RT @janeaustin Woman meets man called Darcy who seems horrible. He turns out to be nice really. They get together.

…. It kind of puts a whole new spin on the term short story.

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