Classic works get Twitterature treatment in new book

Emmett Rensin and Alexander Aciman distil more than 60 literary classics into fewer than 20 tweets a book. [via The Guardian]

There was a minor publishing sensation this summer when Penguin announced that it had bought the rights for the book, Twitterature, in which two first year university students summarise everything from Medea to Madame Bovary.

The book is not published in the UK until 5 November but an advance copy has been seen by the Guardian.

Romeo tweets his dying lament: O, I am fortune's fool! Maybe just a tool. And so I die. BTW that other woman I was into before Juliet? Would've been a safer bet.

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