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English teachers have the inconsiderate habit of assigning mammoth-sized works of literature to read and then actually expecting you to do it. This wouldn't be so bad except that invariably the requisite reading is as boring as fly fishing in an empty lake. Half of those books don't even have discernible plots. And let's face it -- the Cliff's Notes are pretty time-consuming too. Worry no more. Your troubles are over. We here at Book-A-Minute Classics have come up with a solution. We've taken all kinds of great works of literature and boiled them down to their essence, extracting all the filler (and believe me, there's a lot of it sometimes). In just one minute, you can read entire books and learn everything your teachers will expect you to know.

"That's nice," you say, "but I don't believe you." Yah hah, skeptical soul! We've got our collection of ultra-condensed books right here! We've got everything from Shakespeare to Steinbeck! See for yourself!

The Ultra-Condensed Classic Books

Latest additions: 4/6/12

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
Beowulf by Anonymous.
The Confessions of St. Augustine by St. Augustine.
The Collected Work of Jane Austen.
Emma by Jane Austen.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino.
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.
Don Quixote by Cervantes.
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov.
Ivanov by Anton Chekhov.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.
The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad.
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.
The Collected Work of E. E. Cummings.
Inferno by Dante.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders Who Was Born In Newgate, And During a Life of Continu'd Variety For Threescore Years, Besides Her Childhood, Was Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife [Whereof Once To Her Own Brother], Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon In Virginia, At Last Grew Rich, Liv'd Honest, and Died a Penitent by Daniel Defoe.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens.
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
Light In August by William Faulkner.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy.
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway.
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway.
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen.
The Beast In the Jungle by Henry James.
Daisy Miller by Henry James.
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.
Washington Square by Henry James.
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler.
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence.
To Build a Fire by Jack London.
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville.
Billy Budd by Herman Melville.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.
Paradise Lost by John Milton.
Animal Farm by George Orwell.
The Collected Work of Wilfred Owen.
The Collected Work of Edgar Allan Poe.
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
The Catcher In the Rye by J. D. Salinger.
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.
King Lear by William Shakespeare.
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.
Othello by William Shakespeare.
Richard III by William Shakespeare.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare.
The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
The Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles.
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
The Pearl by John Steinbeck.
The Lady or the Tiger by Frank R. Stockton.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau.
Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.
The Collected Work of Virginia Woolf.

And, on Book-A-Minute SF/F...

The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien.

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