Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters

Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters

by Mallory Ortberg
Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters

Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters

by Mallory Ortberg

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Overview


Hilariously imagined text conversations—the passive aggressive, the clever, and the strange—from classic and modern literary figures, from Scarlett O'Hara to Jessica Wakefield

Mallory Ortberg, the co-creator of the cult-favorite website The Toast, presents this whimsical collection of hysterical text conversations from your favorite literary characters. Everyone knows that if Scarlett O'Hara had an unlimited text-and-data plan, she'd constantly try to tempt Ashley away from Melanie with suggestive messages. If Mr. Rochester could text Jane Eyre, his ardent missives would obviously be in all-caps. And Daisy Buchanan would not only text while driving, she'd text you to pick her up after she totaled her car. Based on the popular web-feature, Texts from Jane Eyre is a witty, irreverent mashup that brings the characters from your favorite books into the twenty-first century.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781627791830
Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 11/04/2014
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 680,413
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Mallory Ortberg is the co-creator of The Toast, a general-interest website geared toward women. She has written for Gawker, New York Magazine, The Hairpin, and The Atlantic. She lives in the Bay Area.

Table of Contents

Part I
Medea 3
Gilgamesh 6
Achilles 8
Dido 11
Plato 12
Circe 14
Medea, Part II 17
King Midas 19
The Wife of Bath 20
William Blake 21
King Lear 25
John Donne 30
Hamlet 32
Don Quixote 34
Hamlet, Part II 36
René Descartes 37
William Wordsworth 39
Hamlet, Part III 41
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 43
Hamlet, Part IV 45

Part II
Jane Eyre 49
Sherlock Holmes 52
Emily Dickinson 55
Oliver Twist 60
Lord Byron 62
John Keats 66
Emma 69
Pride and Prejudice 72
Moby-Dick 78
Great Expectations 85
Gone with the Wind 89
Edgar Allan Poe 94
Treasure Island 101
Gone with the Wind, Part II 105

Part III
"The Yellow Wallpaper" 109
Wuthering Heights 114
Little Women 120
Hamlet, Part V 129
Henry David Thoreau 130
Daisy Miller 134
The Island of Dr. Moreau 136
Daisy Miller, Part II 137
Les Misérables 139
A Tale of Two Cities 145
Rudyard Kipling 146
Daisy Miller, Part III 147
Daisy Miller, Part IV 148
The Sun Also Rises 149
Agatha Christie 152
The Great Gatsby 153
Daisy Miller, Part V 155
J. Alfred Prufrock 156
Virginia Woolf 161
William Faulkner 162
Daisy Miller, Part VI 165
Peter Pan 167
The Great Gatsby, Part II 171

Part IV
Sweet Valley High 175
The Outsiders 179
The American Girl Series 183
The Baby-Sitters Club 188
Nancy Drew 192
Atlas Shrugged 196
Fight Club 200
The Lorax 205
Rebecca 209
Cormac McCarthy 213
The Hunger Games 216
William Carlos Williams 219
Harry Potter 222
The Little Prince 225

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