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We look upon the classics today with a nostalgic reverence, loving the prose, the syntax and the language of a bygone era and often yearning for the long lost beauty of the English language when it was a purer thing. But what if Jane Eyre were written today? What if the classical authors we love so much were a product of today’s technological era? What if they *gasp* used Textspeak?

Fortunately, author Mallory Ortberg has wondered the same thing and she has come up with a wonderful book titled Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favourite Literary Characters and we have just a few small excerpts here for you to enjoy.

Pride and Prejudice

Hamlet

Emily Dickinson Poem

Harry Potter



Plato

Jane Eyre

Blake

Somehow they don’t have the same, gravitas when sent via ext message do they?

If you want to read more of Malory Ortberg’s wonderfully irreverent take on the classics we have the links here for you.

Buy Texts from Jane Eyre US
Buy Texts from Jane Eyre UK

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