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Àííîòàöèÿ: Perhaps you once asked yourself, 'What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince his words, muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub?' No doubt such troubling questions would have been swiftly resolved were the Prince of Denmark a registered user on Twitter.com. This, in essence, is Twitterature.Here you will find seventy-five of the greatest works of western literature — from Beowulf to Bronte, from Kafka to Kerouac, and from Dostoevsky to Dickens— each distilled through the voice of Twitter to its purest, pithiest essence. Including a full glossary of online acronyms and Twitterary terms to aid the amateur, Twitterature provides everything you need to master the literature of the civilised world, while relieving you of the burdensome task of reading it.From Hamlet: WTF IS POLONIUS DOING BEHIND THE CURTAIN???From Dante's Inferno: I'm havin a midlife crisis. Lost in the woods. Shoulda brought my iPhone.From Oedipus: PARTY IN THEBES!!! Nobody cares I killed that old dude, plus this woman is all over me. Total MILF.From Paradise Lost: OH MY GOD I'M IN HELL.'The classics are so last century' Guardian

Àííîòàöèÿ: The Sixth Reader is a book of world-famous stories. The great poems of Greece and Rome, the Bible, the myths of Northern Europe, and the epics and romances of the Age pf Chivalry are all represented. The book is addressed to the pupil. Proper names and the more difficult words and phrases have often been listed with their pronunciations after the lessons inwhich they occur. Other words have been listed For study with the Glossary.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Ruth Sullivan, a literary editor of Ms.magazine, has been nurturing the talents of women writers for the past decade. She has worked in boyh magazine and book publishing and has taught American literature and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin and Cleveland. The stories included here represent thousands of stories evaluated over the past nine years by the following members of the Ms.staff.