Cover art for One Hundred Great Books in Haiku
Published
Penguin, June 2010
ISBN
9780141399423
Format
Softcover, 104 pages
Dimensions
18cm × 11.1cm × 1.3cm

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In the sixteenth century, Zen monks in Japan developed the haiku, an unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines. Now, in One Hundred Great Books in Haiku, David Bader has applied this ancient poetic form to the classics. From Homer to Milton to Dostyevsky, the great books are finally within reach of even the shortest attention spans!

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