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Author Topic: Classic Literature is Mostly Padding  (Read 384 times)
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Sarah
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« on: July 11, 2007 »
Let me share with you an interesting piece about classic literature which I've found at
http://sexyliar.blogspot.com/

To howls of indignation from literary purists, a leading publishing house is slimming down some of the world’s greatest novels.

Tolstoy, Dickens and Thackeray would not have agreed with the view that 40 per cent of Anna Karenina, David Copperfield and Vanity Fair are mere “padding”, but Orion Books believes that modern readers will welcome the shorter versions.

The article about which was this quote you can see here:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/fiction/article1652629.ece
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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2007 »
I think shorter version need to exist!
In our dynamic life we don't have enough time to read 500-1000 pages.
But we have to be educated. This is the moment when short version comes on the scene  Wink

Adn if someone is so excited - he or she can easily return to the full version.
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