MadwyfSetsFyr2Haus

Who said literature doesn't move along with the times? Now you can get bits and pieces of famous works on your mobile phone, like literary pills. John Sutherland (well-known for his Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction series) is in charge of it:

A company offering mobile phones to students (Dot mobile) has hired Professor John Sutherland, professor emeritus of English Literature at University College London, to offer subscribers text message summaries and quotes from literary classics.
The hope is that messages in the truncated shorthand of mobile phones will help make great literature more accessible.

Dot mobile's unique service amply demonstrates text's ability to fillet out the important elements in a plot. Take for example the ending to Jane Eyre -- 'MadwyfSetsFyr2Haus'. Was ever a climax better compressed?" said Sutherland, this year's chairman of the judges for the Man Booker literature prize.

Now, any ideas for other Brontë novels? "NelyImEathclif" as the key sentence of Wuthering Heights quite loses its charm that way, doesn't it? But then again, as Shakespeare would say: w@ ’s n a nme? dat wich we cll @>-->-- By NE oder nme wd smel as swEt.

Categories: In_the_News, Jane_Eyre, Charlotte_Brontë