Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float

Name: Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float
Brand: Plume
SKU: 9780452295735-PRUSDTR-US
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Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook

Sarah Schmelling (Author) ... more

Edition: US - Paperback / softback

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English • Age Adult - Adult

288 pages • 7.0 x 9.2 x 0.6 in

Approx. weight: 0.84 lb

Publication date: 25 Aug,2009

Barcode: 9780452295735 • Plume

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By: Sarah Schmelling

Following everyone from Frankenstein’s Monster to King Lear’s Fool, Charles Dickens to Virginia Woolf, this is a loving spoof of our literary favorites, and a hilarious collection for a twenty-first century generation of readers. Long live the Classics: 2.0!

When humorist Sarah Schmelling transformed Hamlet into a Facebook news feed on McSweeney’s, it launched the next big humor trend—Facebook lit. In this world, the king “pokes” the queen, Hamlet becomes a fan of daggers, and Ophelia renounces her interest in moody princes. Now, what began as an internet phenomenon is a book.

Ophelia Joined The Group Maidens Who Don’t Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook is a clever spoof of the most-trafficked social networking website and a playful game of literary who’s who. The book brings more than fifty authors and stories from classic literature back to life and online, and it is sure to have book lovers and Facebook addicts alike twittering with joy.

From The Odyssey to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Pride and Prejudice to Lolita, Schmelling brings the conventions of social networking—profile pages, status updates, news feeds, games and quizzes—to some of literature’s most well-known works, authors and characters.