Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in Three Panels (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781616205034)

Literature is long. Comics are short.

Does Proust get you down? Do you find The Unbearable Lightness of Being simply unbearable? Is The Inferno your own private hell? Do you long to be conversant about classics like Moby Dick, the Bhagavad Gita, Madame Bovary, and, um, Twilight?

Bestselling illustrator Lisa Brown (The Airport Book; Baby, Mix Me a Drink) did her homework. Long Story Short offers 100 pithy and skewering three-panel literary summaries, from curriculum classics like Don Quixote, Lord of the Flies, and Jane Eyre to modern favorites like Beloved, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Atonement, conveniently organized by subjects including "Love," "Sex," "Death," and "Female Trouble." Lisa Brown's Long Story Short is the perfect way to turn a traipse through what your English teacher called "the canon" into a frolic--or to happily cram for the next occasion that requires you to appear bookish and well-read.


Author: Lisa Brown
ISBN-10: 1616205032
ISBN-13: 9781616205034
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.50h x 8.10w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/27/2020
Booklist 05/15/2020 pg. 38
School Library Journal 05/22/2020 pg. 1