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Your Favourite Penguin Classics Just Got A Pop Culture Upgrade

Homegrown Staff

While we’re sure that William Shakespeare might be rolling over in his grave at the sight of Kim Kardashian on the cover of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, we can’t help but applaud this project for its sheer ingenuity.

Created by Romanian artist, Julien Britnic, this ongoing Tumblr pairs Penguin classic novels with pop cultural and digital references - think To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee meets one of the must infuriating smartphone games of all time, Flappy Bird; and Aladdin and the Lamp meets Siri.

Millennials and literature do go together after all.

I. One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

II. Animal Farm - George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

III. A Room Of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

IV. Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck

Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck

V. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

1984 by George Orwell

VI.  Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

VII. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

To Kill A Mockingbird

VIII. Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen

Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen

IX. Aladdin And The Lamp

Aladdin And The Lamp

X. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

XI. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love In The Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

XII. Around The World In 80 Days - Jules Verne

Around The World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne

XIII. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

XIV. Lord Of The Flies - William Golding

Lord of The Flies by William Golding

XV. Dracula - Bram Stoker

Dracula by Bram Stoker

XVI. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

XVII. The Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

The Old And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

XVIII. The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner

The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner

XIX. Through The Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll

Through The Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

XX. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

XXI. The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

XXII. Iliad - Homer

Illiad by Homer

XXIII. In Search Of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

XXVI. Hamlet - William Shakespeare

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

XXV. For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

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