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12-21-2006, 07:09 PM
http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/im/bsffline.gif (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/sff.shtml) Your favorite science fiction and fantasy stories at lightspeed.
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 (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/anon.beowulf.shtml) by Anonymous.
The Confessions of St. Augustine (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/augustine.confessions.shtml), by St. Augustine.
The Collected Work of Jane Austen (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/austen.shtml).
Jane Eyre (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/bronte.eyre.shtml) by Charlotte Bronte.
Wuthering Heights (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/bronte.wuthering.shtml) by Emily Bronte.
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/calvino.winter.shtml) by Italo Calvino.
Invisible Cities (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/calvino.cities.shtml) by Italo Calvino. http://www.rinkworks.com/im/new.gif
Don Quixote (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/cervantes.quixote.shtml) by Cervantes.
The Canterbury Tales (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/chaucer.canterbury.shtml) by Geoffrey Chaucer.
The Cherry Orchard (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/chekhov.cherry.shtml) by Anton Chekhov.
Ivanov (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/chekhov.ivanov.shtml) by Anton Chekhov.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/coleridge.mariner.shtml) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Heart of Darkness (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/conrad.heart.shtml) by Joseph Conrad.
Lord Jim (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/conrad.jim.shtml) by Joseph Conrad.
The Secret Sharer (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/conrad.sharer.shtml) by Joseph Conrad.
The Red Badge of Courage (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/crane.redbadge.shtml) by Stephen Crane.
The Collected Work of E. E. Cummings (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/cummings.shtml).
Inferno (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/dante.inferno.shtml), 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 (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/defoe.moll.shtml) by Daniel Defoe.
A Christmas Carol (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/dickens.carol.shtml) by Charles Dickens.
David Copperfield (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/dickens.copperfield.shtml) by Charles Dickens.
Great Expectations (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/dickens.expectations.shtml) by Charles Dickens.
Little Dorrit (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/dickens.dorrit.shtml) by Charles Dickens.
A Tale of Two Cities (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/dickens.twocities.shtml) by Charles Dickens.
Crime and Punishment (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/dostoevsky.crime.shtml) by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
As I Lay Dying (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/faulkner.asilaydying.shtml) by William Faulkner.
Light In August (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/faulkner.august.shtml) by William Faulkner.
The Great Gatsby (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/fitzgerald.gatsby.shtml) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Faust (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/goethe.faust.shtml) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
The Yellow Wallpaper (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/gilman.yellow.shtml) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Lord of the Flies (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/golding.flies.shtml) by William Golding.
Jude the Obscure (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/hardy.jude.shtml) by Thomas Hardy.
The Return of the Native (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/hardy.native.shtml) by Thomas Hardy.
The Scarlet Letter (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/hawthorne.letter.shtml) by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Young Goodman Brown (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/hawthorne.brown.shtml) by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Catch-22 (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/heller.catch22.shtml) by Joseph Heller.
A Farewell To Arms (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/hemingway.farewell.shtml) by Ernest Hemingway.
The Old Man and the Sea (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/hemingway.oldman.shtml) by Ernest Hemingway.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/hemingway.snows.shtml) by Ernest Hemingway.
The Sun Also Rises (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/hemingway.sun.shtml) by Ernest Hemingway.
The Odyssey (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/homer.odyssey.shtml) by Homer.
Peer Gynt (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/ibsen.peergynt.shtml) by Henrik Ibsen.
The Beast In the Jungle (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/james.beast.shtml) by Henry James.
Daisy Miller (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/james.daisy.shtml) by Henry James.
Washington Square (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/james.washington.shtml) by Henry James.
Finnegans Wake (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/joyce.finnegans.shtml) by James Joyce.
The Metamorphosis (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/kafka.metamorphosis.shtml) by Franz Kafka. http://www.rinkworks.com/im/new.gif
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/kesey.oneflew.shtml) by Ken Kesey.
Darkness At Noon (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/koestler.darkness.shtml) by Arthur Koestler.
Sons and Lovers (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/lawrence.sons.shtml) by D. H. Lawrence.
To Build a Fire (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/london.fire.shtml) by Jack London.
Bartleby the Scrivener (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/melville.bartleby.shtml) by Herman Melville.
Billy Budd (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/melville.budd.shtml) by Herman Melville.
Moby Dick (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/melville.moby.shtml) by Herman Melville.
The Crucible (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/miller.crucible.shtml) by Arthur Miller.
Death of a Salesman (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/miller.salesman.shtml) by Arthur Miller.
Paradise Lost (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/milton.lost.shtml) by John Milton.
Animal Farm (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/orwell.animalfarm.shtml) by George Orwell.
The Collected Work of Edgar Allan Poe (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/poe.shtml).
Gravity's Rainbow (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/pynchon.rainbow.shtml) by Thomas Pynchon.
The Catcher In the Rye (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/salinger.catcher.shtml) by J. D. Salinger.
Franny and Zooey (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/salinger.franny.shtml) by J. D. Salinger.
Hamlet (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/shakespeare.hamlet.shtml) by William Shakespeare.
Julius Caesar (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/shakespeare.caesar.shtml) by William Shakespeare.
King Lear (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/shakespeare.kinglear.shtml) by William Shakespeare. http://www.rinkworks.com/im/new.gif
A Midsummer Night's Dream (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/shakespeare.midsummer.shtml) by William Shakespeare.
Othello (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/shakespeare.othello.shtml) by William Shakespeare.
Richard III (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/shakespeare.richardiii.shtml) by William Shakespeare.
Romeo and Juliet (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/shakespeare.romeojuliet.shtml) by William Shakespeare. http://www.rinkworks.com/im/new.gif
The Taming of the Shrew (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/shakespeare.shrew.shtml) by William Shakespeare.
The Tempest (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/shakespeare.tempest.shtml) by William Shakespeare.
Frankenstein (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/shelley.frankenstein.shtml) by Mary Shelley.
The Jungle (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/sinclair.jungle.shtml) by Upton Sinclair.
The Oedipus Trilogy (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/sophocles.oedipus.shtml) by Sophocles.
The Grapes of Wrath (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/steinbeck.grapes.shtml) by John Steinbeck.
Of Mice and Men (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/steinbeck.ofmice.shtml) by John Steinbeck.
The Pearl (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/steinbeck.pearl.shtml) by John Steinbeck.
The Lady or the Tiger (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/stockton.ladytiger.shtml) by Frank R. Stockton.
Gulliver's Travels (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/swift.gulliver.shtml) by Jonathan Swift.
Walden (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/thoreau.walden.shtml) by Henry David Thoreau.
Anna Karenina (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/tolstoy.karenina.shtml) by Leo Tolstoy.
War and Peace (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/tolstoy.warandpeace.shtml) by Leo Tolstoy.
Huckleberry Finn (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/twain.huck.shtml) by Mark Twain.
Ethan Frome (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/wharton.frome.shtml) by Edith Wharton.
The Collected Work of Virginia Woolf (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/woolf.shtml).

Seedler
12-22-2006, 09:44 PM
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:

FireBlaze
01-01-2007, 03:08 PM
wOWWW thanksss

Dedalus^
01-03-2007, 03:00 PM
hehe, i've seen these before - but they only make sense if you've read the books!

lynx
01-04-2007, 12:28 AM
The complete works of Hans Christian Anderson:

Once upon a time they lived happily ever after.