Ultra-Condensed Books - Don't have time to read them all?
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Covers everything from Tolkien to Dragonlance.
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Read to your kids without plodding through every last word of those eight page epics.
Covers everything from Dr. Seuss to the Hardy Boys.
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When even the Cliff's Notes are just too long, come here.
Covers everything from Shakespeare to Steinbeck.
The Ultra-Condensed Classic Books
Latest additions: 9/12/06
- Beowulf by Anonymous.
- The Confessions of St. Augustine, by St. Augustine.
- The Collected Work of Jane Austen.
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
- If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino.
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. http://www.rinkworks.com/im/new.gif
- Don Quixote by Cervantes.
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
- The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov.
- Ivanov by Anton Chekhov.
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.
- The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad.
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.
- The Collected Work of E. E. Cummings.
- Inferno, by Dante.
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders Who Was Born In Newgate, And During a Life of Continu'd Variety For Threescore Years, Besides Her Childhood, Was Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife [Whereof Once To Her Own Brother], Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon In Virginia, At Last Grew Rich, Liv'd Honest, and Died a Penitent by Daniel Defoe.
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens.
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
- Light In August by William Faulkner.
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy.
- The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
- A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway.
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway.
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
- The Odyssey by Homer.
- Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen.
- The Beast In the Jungle by Henry James.
- Daisy Miller by Henry James.
- Washington Square by Henry James.
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. http://www.rinkworks.com/im/new.gif
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
- Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler.
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence.
- To Build a Fire by Jack London.
- Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville.
- Billy Budd by Herman Melville.
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.
- Paradise Lost by John Milton.
- Animal Farm by George Orwell.
- The Collected Work of Edgar Allan Poe.
- Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
- The Catcher In the Rye by J. D. Salinger.
- Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger.
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.
- King Lear by William Shakespeare. http://www.rinkworks.com/im/new.gif
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.
- Othello by William Shakespeare.
- Richard III by William Shakespeare.
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. http://www.rinkworks.com/im/new.gif
- The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare.
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
- The Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles.
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
- The Pearl by John Steinbeck.
- The Lady or the Tiger by Frank R. Stockton.
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
- Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.
- The Collected Work of Virginia Woolf.
Re: Ultra-Condensed Books - Don't have time to read them all?
Quote:
Katharina
Spit. Hiss.
Petruchio
Shut your mouth before I hit you.
Katharina
I can be civilized now that a man has bossed me around. I love you madly, Petruchio.
THE END
Taming of the shrew....:glag:
Re: Ultra-Condensed Books - Don't have time to read them all?
Re: Ultra-Condensed Books - Don't have time to read them all?
hehe, i've seen these before - but they only make sense if you've read the books!
Re: Ultra-Condensed Books - Don't have time to read them all?
The complete works of Hans Christian Anderson:
Once upon a time they lived happily ever after.