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
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.