Kindle-Sourcing: These Are The Most Highlighted Passages From Classic Books … – Co.Create

Back in the day, student readers looking for a short cut would turn to Cliff’s Notes (or, in Canada, Cole’s Notes) digests. In the 140-character world, Those booklets probably fall into the same TL;.’s The DR category tomes They Summarized

Amazon has gone one better and boiled down essential works of literature to the line or two– all the passages Kindle readers Considered important enough to highlight. The part of the back-to-school promotion, Amazon’s Kindle arm has curated a list of the reading-list quotes from most popular standards. The 13 titles include favorites like The Great Gatsby To Kill A Mockingbird 1984 Macbeth , and Jane Eyre . Though readers often Do gravitate toward thematically relevant moments in the book, some of the passages que mark most readers would probably not impress Inglês Their instructor. Granted, readers probably struggle with the Middle Inglês of The Canterbury Tales , but the most-frequently highlighted quote from que collection is not even Chaucer – it’s from the book’s introduction! (It’s the same for the post-war classic from American literature).

The quotes are in the gallery above. Answers Appear in the slides too, but try and guess before clicking to see Whether you’re smarter than a high schooler.

1. The Great Gatsby
2. Invisible Man
3. Moby Dick
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. Lord of the Flies
6. 1984
7. Catch-22
8. Slaughterhouse 5
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
10. Death of a Salesman
11. Beowulf
12. The Glass Menagerie
13. Macbeth
14. Jane Eyre
15. The Canterbury Tales