Perhaps while reading Shakespeare you've asked yourself, What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince words and muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub? But if the Prince of Denmark had a Twitter account and an iPhone, he could tell his story in real time—and concisely! Hence the genius of Twitterature.Hatched in a dorm room at the brain trust that is the University of Chicago, Twitterature is a hilarious and irreverent re-imagining of the classics as a series of 140-character tweets from the protagonist. Providing a crash course in more than eighty of the world's best-known books, from Homer to Harry Potter, Virgil to Voltaire, Tolstoy to Twilight and Dante to The Da Vinci Code. It's the ultimate Cliffs Notes. Because as great as the classics are, who has time to read those big, long books anymore?Sample tweets:From Hamlet: WTF IS POLONIUS DOING BEHIND THE CURTAIN??? From the...

A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters--the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty . . . between an empire and love. Bold, rich, and splendid in its setting and emotions, Antony And Cleopatra ranks among Shakespeare's supreme achievements.From the Paperback edition.

A "MUST READ" HORROR ANTHOLOGY Horrors! unearths and restores to print classic tales of grim and grue that have languished unnoticed and unreprinted for too long. Among the selection of rarely seen horror masterpieces from the early years of the past century are Meshes of Doom, a tale of sentient plants, by Neville Kilvington, Unburied Bane, a tale of ghostly revenge, by N. Dennet, The Whistling Room, a tale of invasion from another dimension, by William Hope Hodgson, The Caretaker's Story, a tale of supernatural horror, by Edith Olivier, Nightmare Jack, who will haunt your own nightmares forever, by John Metcalfe, and other gems of terror and the supernatural. How many have you read before?