| About:- Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter |
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Alexander Aciman |
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Penguin UK |
| ISBN 13:- |
9780141047713 |
| Publication Date:- |
December '2009 |
| No. of Pages:- |
160 |
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English |
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| Description:- |
Perhaps you once asked yourself, ‘What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince his words, muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub?’ No doubt such troubling questions would have been swiftly resolved were the Prince of Denmark a registered user on Twitter.com. This, in essence, is Twitterature.
Here you will find seventy-five of the greatest works of western literature – from Beowulf to Bronte, from Kafka to Kerouac, and from Dostoevsky to Dickens– each distilled through the voice of Twitter to its purest, pithiest essence. Including a full glossary of online acronyms and Twitterary terms to aid the amateur, Twitterature provides everything you need to master the literature of the civilised world, while relieving you of the burdensome task of reading it.
From Hamlet: WTF IS POLONIUS DOING BEHIND THE CURTAIN???
From Dante’s Inferno: I’m havin a midlife crisis. Lost in the woods. Shoulda brought my iPhone.
From Oedipus: PARTY IN THEBES!!! Nobody cares I killed that old dude, plus this woman is all over me. Total MILF.
From Paradise Lost: OH MY GOD I’M IN HELL. |
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Hilarious- Sunday Times
Wittily irreverent, scandalous, but sure to inspire a cult following - Daily Mail
An irreverent, profane and sometimes brilliant collection - Reuters
The trouble with Twitter is, I think, that too many twits might make a tw*t' - David Cameron
This is exactly the kind of thing you’d expect University of Chicago students to come up with - Professor W J T Mitchell
A tool to aid the digestion of great literature - Guardian
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| About Alexander Aciman:- |
Alexander Aciman is in his first year at the University of Chicago. His journalism has appeared in The New York Times and the New York Sun. He is also a devoted follower of Napoleon Bonaparte. He is 18 years old. |
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| About Penguin UK:- |
Penguin Books India is the largest English language trade publisher in the subcontinent. Headquartered in New Delhi, the company's commercial activity includes the publishing of its own books in the English language as well as in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and soon in Malayalam and the distribution of books from overseas publishers including the Penguin Group, A&C Black, Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber, Greenwood Publishing, Quercus and Sterling Publishing.
Founded in 1985, Penguin began publishing in October 1987 with seven titles. Today, the company publishes more than 200 new titles every year and has an active backlist of over 2000 titles.
Known for its strong fiction and narrative non-fiction list, Penguin India has published across virtually every segment including self-help, cookery,reference and quizzing, biography, travel, picture books, business,politics, history, health and fitness, religion and philosophy as well as sports and leisure.
Penguin's biggest authors have won virtually every major literary prize, including the Nobel Prize, the Jnanpith Award, the Man Booker Prize, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; several of our authors are also recipients of the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Shri, India's highest civilian honours.
Penguin's biggest publishing initiatives in the recent past include the launch of its Indian Language Publishing programme in 2005 and Portfolio,its business imprint, in 2006 which is characterized by the best of writing on business and management.
Penguin's children's imprint Puffin, since its re-launch four years ago,has met with a tremendous response, with several of its titles becoming bestsellers. Puffin titles are marked by stunning illustrations by leading artists in the country, and production quality that meets the highest international standards.
Penguin India also publishes Indian stories in Ladybird's internationally bestselling Favourite Tales series and was the first to publish Ladybird books outside the UK. |
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