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From Antigone to Lolita, from Beowulf to The Hobbit. The world's greatest literature is summarized in Maurice Sagoff's hilarious light verse. The result-70 intoxicating distillations of the classics everyone has been taking far too seriously for far too long. Selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club and a New York Times Best Seller. 180,000 copies in print.
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Reductio ad absurdum!
70 Epic tales & heroic myths, dense theories & windy texts, oral traditions & really long novels-all reduced to 34 minutes reading.
Learn Mill's Principles of Political Economy in couplets, Darwin's Origin of Species as a chant. Read Jane Eyre in 30 lines, Beowulf in 26, The Canterbury Tales in 21. Discover Melville's Moby Dick in 8 lines of verse, fully footnoted. Catch up on Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in a record 3-stanza report.
Plus many more that are less-70 ShrinkLits in all.
Full-color illustrations throughout.
About the Author
Maurice Sagoff
Age: 88journalist-turned-poet who wrote Shrinklits: 70 of the World's Towering Classics Cut Down to Size, a collection that cleverly and succinctly summarized literary classics in verse. Passed away March 18,1998.
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- PublisherWorkman Publishing Company
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0894800795
- ISBN 13 9780894800795
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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