Twitterature: Classic Novels in 140 Characters or Less

Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter, to be released in the United Kingdom next month, is a truly post-modern compilation of some of history's greatest literary works. The Penguin published book features some 60, abridged-to-the-max, classics formatted in 140 characters or less, a la the preeminent micro-blogging platform Twitter.

Emmett Rensin and Alexander Aciman,  English/Philosophy and Comparitive Literature majors respectively at the University of Chicago, are the authors of the forthcoming, satircally inclined, sparknotes for the millennial generation. The speil goes a little something like this, each of the 60 selected literary works is condensed down to a maximum of 20 tweet-sized entries explicating, analysing, and contextualizing the main ideas and themes of the stories, complete with profanity, wit, and irony.

To give you a taste of what to expect, Dante's Inferno was cut down to a mere 140 characters saying,

while Sophocles' Oedipus the King ended up looking like,

Take it as you may, but regardless of the worth of Twitterature you can't say it's not at least creative.