Lord Byron might have been furious. Hemingway outraged. Austen inwardly irritated. But the inevitable has happened: their prose has been reimagined through Twitter and will be published in a book distilling more than 60 classic works of literature.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. (ler mais)
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