{"id":125994,"date":"2018-06-01T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=125994"},"modified":"2018-06-01T12:27:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T16:27:38","slug":"abridged-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/01\/abridged-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"Abridged Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>John Atkinson has illustrated and summarized the books you don\u2019t want to read but nevertheless feel you should.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/abridgedclassics_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126093 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/abridgedclassics_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/abridgedclassics_cover.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/abridgedclassics_cover-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged_gatsby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126027 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged_gatsby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged_gatsby.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged_gatsby-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged_gatsby-768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged_grapes-of-wrath.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126028 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged_grapes-of-wrath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged_grapes-of-wrath.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged_grapes-of-wrath-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged_grapes-of-wrath-768x504.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged_lionwitchwaredrobe-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126031 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged_lionwitchwaredrobe-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged_lionwitchwaredrobe-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged_lionwitchwaredrobe-1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged_lionwitchwaredrobe-1-768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged-classics_ontheroad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126032 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged-classics_ontheroad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged-classics_ontheroad.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged-classics_ontheroad-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/abridged-classics_ontheroad-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>John Atkinson lives in Ottawa, Canada. He is a voracious reader of cereal boxes, microwave instructions, and subtext. His cartoon\u00a0<a id=\"m_1021983185529406419LPlnk708174\" class=\"m_1021983185529406419OWAAutoLink\" href=\"https:\/\/wronghands1.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/wronghands1.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1527956433152000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF1R9BALMFs6e9CjFqk4pL5qWBlVA\">Wrong Hands\u00a0<\/a>has been featured in numerous online and print publications worldwide. His first\u00a0book,\u00a0<\/em><a id=\"m_1021983185529406419LPlnk467276\" class=\"m_1021983185529406419OWAAutoLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062747853\/abridged-classics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062747853\/abridged-classics\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1527956433152000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEYjt53gZJkxYdR1NLNk-bSsGKWEA\">Abridged Classics<\/a><em>, is forthcoming from HarperCollins on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_935896865\"><span class=\"aQJ\">June 5<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062747853\/abridged-classics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn\u2019t<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Copyright \u00a9 John Atkinson, 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Atkinson has illustrated and summarized the books you don\u2019t want to read but nevertheless feel you should. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6062],"tags":[6428,3028,659,34276],"class_list":["post-125994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor-2","tag-on-the-road","tag-the-grapes-of-wrath","tag-the-great-gatsby","tag-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Abridged Classics by John Atkinson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For readers lazy, occupied, or otherwise uninterested in the literary canon,\u00a0John Atkinson has illustrated and summarized the books you don\u2019t want to read but nevertheless feel you should.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/01\/abridged-classics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abridged Classics by John Atkinson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"June 1, 2018 \u2013 John Atkinson has illustrated and summarized the books you don\u2019t want to read but nevertheless feel you should. \u00a0 &nbsp; 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