Literary Lounge

Litsketches where authors, characters, and classics get a modern literary makeover. Satirical, insightful takes on poetry, novels, and literary legends. Where authors, poems, and literary classics get the ABS treatment—sharp, bold, and never boring. Dive into scrolls on Shakespeare, Plath, Dickens, Austen, and more, with wit as your bookmark.

Writers Who Accidentally Predicted the Future Before It Happened

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When imagination outran science and fiction quietly became fact ABS Believes Literature does not predict the future. It merely notices what the world is trying to ignore.Writers do not become prophets. Readers simply arrive late. The future has always been an overconfident creature. It walks around as if it invented everything, conveniently forgetting that several […]

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Books That Were Banned for Reasons That Make No Sense at All

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A tour through the world’s most confused moral policing, featuring bears, rabbits, witches and a few very nervous adults. ABS Believes Humans fear what they do not understand, especially when it looks cute or carries a moral.Censorship reveals more about the insecurities of the censor than the danger of the book. A whimsical bookshelf featuring

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Transformation – Sri Aurobindo Summary Literary Appreciation

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Transformation – Sri Aurobindo My breath runs in a subtle rhythmic stream;It fills my members with a might divine:I have drunk the Infinite like a giant’s wine.Time is my drama or my pageant dream.Now are my illumined cells joy’s flaming schemeAnd changed my thrilled and branching nerves to fineChannels of rapture opal and hyalineFor the

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Much Ado About Nothing

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A Comedy Where Gossip Does the Sword Work and Love Trips Over Its Own Feet Welcome to Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s festival of misunderstandings, accidental villainy, accidental romance, and accidental intelligence. This is the play where people fall in love by arguing, fall apart because someone coughed suspiciously in the bushes, and repair everything

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As You Like It William Shakespeare

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A Forest, A Banished Duke, A Lovesick Poet, And Enough Disguises To Confuse The Gods Welcome to As You Like It, Shakespeare’s backyard picnic of chaos where everyone escapes into the Forest of Arden, believing trees can fix emotional damage. This is the play where love happens with reckless speed, disguises multiply like rabbits, and

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THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS Swift Roasts Everyone In Sight.

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A Satirical Journey Through Ancient Pride and Modern Vanity What ABS Believes Satire walks into a room quietly but exposes everything loudly. Jonathan Swift did not approach intellectual quarrels the way timid scholars did. He walked straight toward them with the confidence of a man who knew he was about to expose everyone. When he

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THE RAPE OF THE LOCK : Alexander Pope

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Reimagined, Retold, and Ruthlessly Roasted  Where We Politely Step Into the 18th Century and Immediately Regret It Picture London in the early 1700s.Everyone smells like rosewater, ego, and inherited entitlement. Tea has replaced oxygen. Coffee houses pretend to be intellectual hubs while hosting men who believe Latin is a seasoning. Women are expected to flutter,

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The Picture of Dorian Gray: When the Soul Poses for a Portrait

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The Picture of Dorian Gray: When the Soul Poses for a Portrait There are sins that roar and sins that whisper. Dorian Gray’s whispered beautifully. He began as a sketch of innocence, admired, adored, and almost unreal. By the time the canvas caught its final shade, innocence had become memory, and beauty had learned to

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