Sagoff, Maurice; Roslyn Schwartz (ill.);
ShrinkLits: Seventy of the World's Towering Classics Cut Down to Size
Whizzard, 1980, 111 pages
ISBN 0233973141, 9780233973142
topics: | literature | digest
Extremely brief summaries of major works of literature; poetry, also non-fiction. Often in rhyming verse.
Introduction William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White Preface ShrinkLit: Elements of Style Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish Beowulf Robert Browning The Pied Piper of Hamelin Sinclair Lewis Babbit Mary Shelley Frankenstein Franz Kafka Metamorphosis Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye Charles Dickens Oliver Twist Dante Alighieri Inferno Sophocles Antigone William Shakespeare King Lear George Eliot Silas Marner Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Thomas Paine Common Sense Caius Julius Caesar Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic Wars Ernest Hemmingway A Farewell to Arms Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Song of Hiawatha F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit (two versions) Vladimir Nabokov Lolita The Self-Help Books Phillip Roth Portnoy's Complaint Alex Comfort The Joy of Sex Aristophanes Lysistrata Alfred C. Kinsey and others Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (The Kinsey Report) Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland Kung-Tzu (Confucius) The Shih Ching John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress Voltaire Candide Edgar Allen Poe The Raven Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village Herman Kahn On Thermonuclear War Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Henry David Thoreau Walden E.F. Schumacher Small is Beautiful Pygmalion Sappho Gulliver's Travels George Bernard Shaw The Communist Manifesto Jonathan Swift Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (The "Little Red Book") Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Thomas Hardy Return of the Native Herman Melville Moby Dick or the White Whale Charles Darwin The Origin of Species Rod McKuen Listen to the Warm David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace The Book of Lists Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe John Stuart Mill Principles of Political Economy Jack London Call of the Wild Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales The Sonnets of William Shakespeare (1-17) The Sonnets of William Shakespeare (18-154)