Raincoast Books

What Will You Read Next?

Texts from Jane Eyre

And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters

9781627791830

Henry Holt and Co.
Available: 11/04/14
4.98 x 8.28 · 240 pages
9781627791830
CDN $49.00 · cl
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Mallory Ortberg


Hilariously imagined text conversations - the passive aggressive, the clever, and the strange - from classic and modern literary figures, from Scarlett O'Hara to Jessica Wakefield

Mallory Ortberg, the co-creator of the cult-favorite website The Toast, presents this whimsical collection of hysterical text conversations from your favorite literary characters. Everyone knows that if Scarlett O'Hara had an unlimited text-and-data plan, she'd constantly try to tempt Ashley away from Melanie with suggestive messages. If Mr. Rochester could text Jane Eyre, his ardent missives would obviously be in all-caps. And Daisy Buchanan would not only text while driving, she'd text you to pick her up after she totaled her car. Based on the popular web-feature, Texts from Jane Eyre is a witty, irreverent mashup that brings the characters from your favorite books into the twenty-first century.

Mallory Ortberg is Slate 's Dear Prudence." She has written for The New Yorker, New York magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, and The Atlantic . She is the cocreator of The Toast, a general-interest website geared toward women. Mallory is the author of Texts from Jane Eyre and The Merry Spinster .