Classics

20 Classics in 4 Emoji (Or Fewer)

There’s been a spate of bookish emoji posts over the last few weeks. Slate covered some great first lines of classic novelsBuzzFeed gave a fun run-down of the book emoji world. We thought we’d jump in on the action with our own Book Riot spin, of course. Since the Apple Watch will be showing off its own condensed (animated!) versions of emoji, so too could we condense. So too could we make emoji stronger through simplification. So too could we make sense of long-winded classics in four emoji or fewer. (Okay, yeah, we’re totally the only ones doing such a ridiculous thing, natch.) 1. 100 Years of Solitude: 100-years 2. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: midsummer  3. Anna Karenina: anna-karenina  4. Animal Farm: animal-farm  5. Atlas Shrugged atlas-shrugged  6. Beloved: beloved  7. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: fear-loathing 8. Grapes of Wrath: grapes-wrath 9. The Great Gatsby: great-gatsby 10. Les Misérables: les-miserables 11. Lord of the Flies: lord-flies  12. The Lord of the Rings: lord-rings 13. Mrs. Dalloway: mrs-dalloway 14. Of Mice and Men: mice-men 15. The Old Man and the Sea: old-man-sea 16. Pride and Prejudice: pride-prejudice  17. The Stand: the-stand  18. To Kill a Mockingbird: kill-mockingbird  19. Ulysses: ulysses 20. Watership Down:  watership-down Yeah, we went there. You got some of your own?