Famous fiction, in Twitter format

Saw this at a bookshop today, and decided to buy it.
Twitterature
To give you an idea of what to expect, here are a couple of excerpts:
Milton’s Paradise Lost
Twitterature - Paradise Lost
Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Twitterature - Macbeth
So don’t think I’ve totally stopped reading fiction. See, I’ve met my quota of at least one fiction book a year. (Everything else I read now is self-help/business/management related)
And considering how bite-sized the chapters have become, since they’re now in the form of tweets, I may even be able to finish reading this book!
If only school textbooks could be like this…

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