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Texts from Jane Eyre : and other conversations with your favorite literary characters / Mallory Ortberg.

Record details

ISBN: 1627791833 (hardback)
ISBN: 9781627791830 (hardback)
ISBN: 1627791833 : HRD
ISBN: 9781627791830 (hardback)
ISBN: 1627791833 (hardback)
Physical Description: x, 226 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2014.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Medea -- Gilgamesh -- Achilles -- Dido -- Plato -- Circe -- Medea, part II -- King Midas -- The wife of Bath -- William Blake -- King Lear -- John Donne -- Hamlet -- Don Quixote -- Harmlet, part II -- René Descartes -- William Wordsworth -- Hamlet, part III -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Hamlet, part IV -- Jane Eyre -- Sherlock Holmes -- Emily Dickinson -- Oliver Twist -- Lord Byron -- John Keats -- Emma -- Pride and prejudice -- Moby-Dick -- Great expectations -- Gone with the wind -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Treasure Island -- Gone with the wind, part II -- "The yellow wallpaper" -- Wuthering Heights -- Little women -- Hamlet, part V -- Henry David Thoreau -- Daisy Miller -- The island of Dr. Moreau -- Daisy Miller, part II -- Les misérables -- A tale of two cities -- Rudyad Kipling -- Daisy Miller, part III -- Daisy Miller, part IV -- The sun also rises -- Agatha Christie -- The great Gatsby -- Daisy Miller, part V -- J. Alfred Prufrock -- Virginia Woolf -- William Faulkner -- Daisy Miller, part VI -- Peter Pan -- The great Gatsby, part II -- Sweet Valley High -- The outsiders -- The American girl series -- The Baby-Sitters Club -- Nancy Drew -- Atlas Shrugged -- Fight Club -- The Lorax -- Rebecca -- Cormac McCarthy -- The hunger games -- William Carlos Williams -- Harry Potter -- The little prince.

Summary, etc.:

"Hilariously imagined text conversations--the passive aggressive, the clever, and the strange--from classic and modern literary figures, from Scarlett O'Hara to Jessica Wakefield. Mallory Ortberg, the co-creator of the cult-favorite website The Toast, presents this whimsical collection of hysterical text conversations from your favorite literary characters. Everyone knows that if Scarlett O'Hara had an unlimited text-and-data plan, she'd constantly try to tempt Ashley away from Melanie with suggestive messages. If Mr. Rochester could text Jane Eyre, his ardent missives would obviously be in all-caps. And Daisy Buchanan would not only text while driving, she'd text you to pick her up after she totaled her car. Based on the popular web-feature, Texts from Jane Eyre is a witty, irreverent mashup that brings the characters from your favorite books into the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.