More text conversations from classic novels
A few months ago, we wondered: What if the characters of your favourite novels had smart phones?
So, we stuck mobiles and modern parlance in the hands of Jane Eyre, Moby Dick’s Ishmael, Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Winston and more, just to see what would happen. Below, we let a few more classic stories unfold on a phone screen – to see if Miss Havisham is still checking her phone, and how Madame Bovary and Jane Eyre are getting on with their respective lovers.
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The Odyssey, by Homer
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Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
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Madame Bovary (Part 2), by Gustave Flaubert
Five years later...
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Jane Eyre (Part 2), Charlotte Brontë
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Phone layout images and image at top: Victoria Ford / Penguin