The Uncharitable Library: The Greatest Works Ever Written, Summarized in One Sentence with Some Accuracy

Every masterpiece arrives pre-defended. It comes with a reputation, a reading-group guide, a film adaptation, and at least one professor prepared to die for it.

The Uncharitable Library removes the defense.

Here are 300 of the greatest works ever written, each summarized in a single sentence - the plot stripped of its dignity, the theme deflated with a pin:

Wuthering Heights - Two thoroughly unpleasant people ruin two generations of lives rather than simply talk to each other, and we are assu...