Following everyone from Frankensteinโs Monster to King Learโs 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 McSweeneyโs, it launched the next big humor trendโFacebook lit. In this world, the king โpokesโ 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 Donโt Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook is a clever spoof of the most-trafficked social networking website and a playful game of literary whoโs 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 networkingโprofile pages, status updates, news feeds, games and quizzesโto some of literatureโs most well-known works, authors and characters.