Summary
Six classic novels - Thackeray's Vanity Fair, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Melville's Moby -Dick, Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, Gaskell's Wives and Daughters and Dickens's David Copperfield - have been edited so they can be read (the cover informs us) "in half the time". Spurred on by research revealing that readers are put off classic novels by their length, a team of (anonymous) editors have slimmed them down to create the "Compact Classics" series.
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Matter Over Mind
Fiction Matter over mind Orion Compact Classics Various authors Orion Books, £6.99 each
Prepare your indignation. Six classic novels - Thackeray's Vanity Fair, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Mel...See the full content of this document
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