2B?NT2B?: Classics reduced to text message.Byline: By RUKI SAYID, Consumer Editor LITERARY classics have been hacked down into text messages as a study aid for students. The Complete Works of Shakespeare Complete Works of William Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. Some editions include The Two Noble Kinsmen, a collaboration with John Fletcher, and some do not. - including Hamlet's "To be or not to be?" speech, Milton's Paradise Lost and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales have all been abbreviated. Dickens' Bleak House and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice have also been stripped down. Professor John Sutherland, of University College London “UCL” redirects here. For other uses, see UCL (disambiguation). University College London, commonly known as UCL, is the oldest multi-faculty constituent college of the University of London, one of the two original founding colleges, and the first British and chairman of this year's Man Booker Prize, is behind a service which "amply demonstrates text's ability to fillet fillet /fil·let/ (fil´et) 1. a loop, as of cord or tape, for making traction on the fetus. 2. in the nervous system, a long band of nerve fibers. fil·let n. 1. out the important elements in a plot". He went on: "Take the ending to Jane Eyre, 'MadwyfSetsFyr2Haus'. Was ever a climax better compressed? You can shrink the whole five-act text of Hamlet into a few thousand characters serving as an aide memoire, enabling you to back translate into the original's golden syllables. "The educational opportunities offered by texting are immense. "Some may argue Dickens is too big a morsel mor·sel n. 1. A small piece of food. 2. A tasty delicacy; a tidbit. 3. A small amount; a piece: a morsel of gossip. 4. to be swallowed by text, but he started work as a shorthand writer and would, I suspect, have approved of the brevity if nothing else." The texts will be on the dot mobile phone service for students next year. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Five sisters wanting husbands. There are two new men in town - Bingley and Darcy. They are handsome and wealthy. 5SistrsWntngHsbnds.NwMenInTwn-Bingly&Darcy Fit&Loadd.WUTHERING HEIGHTS Cathy dies but her daughter later marries Heathcliffe's son Linton. Before Heathcliffe's death Cathy's ghost haunts him. Cathydies but hr daughtrL8rMarrysH'sSon-Linton.b4 Heathclifs deth C's ghost haunts hm. PARADISE LOST The devil is kicked out of heaven because he is jealous of Jesus and starts a war. devl kikd outa hevn coz jelus of jesus&strts war. JANE EYRE Jane and Mr Rochester (eventually) fall for each other. But, on the day of wedding, it turns out that he already has a wife in the attic In the Attic can refer to:
Jane&MrRochster(eventuly)Fal4EachOtha. Bt,DayOfWedin, ItTurnsOutHeAlredyHasAWyfInThAtikHuIsMad. |
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