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
II. Animal Farm - George Orwell
III. A Room Of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
IV. Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck
V. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
VI. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
VII. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
VIII. Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen
IX. Aladdin And The Lamp
X. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
XI. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
XII. Around The World In 80 Days - Jules Verne
XIII. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
XIV. Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
XV. Dracula - Bram Stoker
XVI. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
XVII. The Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
XVIII. The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner
XIX. Through The Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll
XX. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
XXI. The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
XXII. Iliad - Homer
XXIII. In Search Of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
XXVI. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
XXV. For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Via Mic.com