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Apr 19, 2021, 15 tweets

Lockdowns are mentally tiring, so you may not be in the mood to finish all those classic novels you started to read. Fortunately I have an alternative for you: Classics Illustrated!

Let's take a look at a few...

Homer eroticism: The Odyssey. Classics Illustrated, 1951.

Wrestling with issues of state: The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Classics Illustrated, 1958.

Peck 'n' Pa...

The Food Of The Gods by HG Wells. Classics Illustrated 160, 1961.

Chug! Chug! Chug! Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Classics Illustrated, 1968.

Eyebrow game... Faust, by Goethe. Classics Illustrated, 1962.

I think this is the Nik Kershaw edition: Don Quixote, by Miguel De Cervantes. Classics Illustrated, 1943.

Spoilers! Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. Classics Illustrated, 1947.

That's a very *ahem* unusual bottle shape you've drawn.

The Bottle Imp, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Classics Illustrated, 1954.

"Is this a dagger I see before me?" Macbeth, by William Shakespeare. Classics Illustrated 128, 1955.

That Scooby-Doo / Sherlock crossover you've been waiting for. Classics Illustrated, 1947.

Don Draper on a unicycle. The Time Machine by H G Wells. Classics Illustrated, 1956.

Hamlet, the codeine edition. Classics Illustrated, 1969.

A few panels from the 1949 Classics Illustrated edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

You can read many Classics Illustrated titles for free thanks to the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/classi…

Do have a look and crib your way to a classics education! What are the chances...

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