Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in Three Panels

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Literature is long.Comics are short.

Does Proust getyou downDo you findThe Unbearable Lightness of Beingsimply unbearable IsThe Infernoyour own private hellDo you long to be conversant about classics likeMoby Dick, the Bhagavad Gita,Madame Bovary, and, um,Twilight

Bestselling illustrator Lisa Brown (The Airport Book; Baby, Mix Me aDrink) did her homework.Long Story Shortoffers 100 pithy and skewering three-panel literary summaries, from curriculum classics likeDon Quixote, Lord of the Flies, andJane Eyretomodern favorites likeBeloved, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,and Atonement, conveniently organized by subjects including Love, Sex, Death, and Female Trouble.Lisa BrownsLong Story Shortis the perfect way to turn a traipse through what your English teacher called the canon into a frolicor to happily cram for the next occasion that requires you to appear bookish and well-read.

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"You probably began this quarantine with dreams of rereading Moby-Dick or Persuasion. But if youre like me, youre finding it hard to concentrate on anything more than a tweet. Fortunately, Lisa Brown has just published Long Story Short, a witty collection of cartoon book reviews."
Ron Charles, The Washington Post

"A collection of three-panel comics that slyly condense hefty works of literature."
Lucy Knisley, author and illustrator ofRelish: My Life in the Kitchen

"Its lighter than CliffsNotes and quite possibly more entertaining than the originals (the horror, the horror!)"
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Lisa Brown draws things like illustrations and comics, writes things like books and book reviews, and teaches things to kids and college students.Her debut picture book,How to Be,was one of the Thirteen Best Childrens Books for Family Literacy. She is a comics contributor atThe Rumpus and teaches illustration at theCalifornia College of the Arts. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son.You can find her online atamericanchickens.com or on Twitter: @lisabrowndraws.