Three. Thousand. Words

This is a total abomination and a terrible, terrible idea: someone has published a 3,000-word abridged version of Wuthering Heights.

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Equipo Leamos

Infobae Ediciones

ISBN: 0042026BL 

It is not a long book. It is a book that requires you to sit with discomfort, which is rather the whole point.

And now there is a 3,000-word version of it. Three. Thousand. Words. Published by Infobae's own books platform, Leamos (Cumbres borrascosas en tres mil palabras, available for free on their Bajalibros app) — and then covered by Infobae Cultura as though it were good news, which is a remarkable thing to do to yourself. The argument being made, apparently with a straight face, is that abridgements serve as a "gateway" to the original — that readers who consume the condensed version might one day pick up the real thing. This is the literary equivalent of saying a postcard (in very low resolution) of the Yorkshire moors is a gateway to actually going outside.