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Okay for Now, by Schmidt
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- The original novel is over four hundred pages long—no groaning, please, you are not cattle being led to slaughter—but you will be reading an abridgment.†
p. 99.4 *abridgment = shortened book; or something reduced in scope while retaining essential elements
- We have to read an abridgment, and it's still a hundred and sixty pages long.†
p. 104.1
- Tuesday was a little better, even though that morning in English we finally started reading Jane Eyre, by Miss Charlotte Bronte, which we were likely to be reading for a whole long time, since it was 160 pages long even in the abridgment, as you might remember.†
p. 120.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(abridge) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements -- especially to a book
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)