num_pages: 112
description: From Antigone to Lolita , from Beowulf to The Hobbit . The world's greatest literature is summarized in Maurice Sagoff's hilarious light verse. The result-70 intoxicating distillations of the classics everyone has been taking far too seriously for far too long. Selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club and a New York Times Best Seller. 180,000 copies in print.
language: English
title: ShrinkLits: Seventy of the World's Towering Classics Cut Down to Size
titlecomplete: ShrinkLits: Seventy of the World's Towering Classics Cut Down to Size
genres: Books About Books, Reference, Short Stories, Poetry, Nonfiction, Humor, Literature, Classics
ratings_count: 160
publisher: Workman Publishing Company