Top 10 Twitter Accounts for Classic Literature Fans
07 May 2015
Imitation is the highest form of flattery – and these Twitter accounts intend to keep a lot of these classic literature books alive through any means necessary.
Love Shakespeare? Enjoy quotes from Mark Twain? Consider following some of these Twitter accounts:
- William Shakespeare, @shakespearesays
- What, pray, ist thou doing?
- Joined Twitter in April, 2009
- Over 350 tweets
- Most famous book: Hamlet (No Fear Shakespeare)
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, @HalfPintIngalls
- I was born in 1867 in a log cabin in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
- Joined Twitter in July, 2008
- Over 1k tweets
- Most famous book: Little House on the Prarie
- Mark Twain, @TheMarkTwain
- Joined Twitter in January, 2011
- Over 2k tweets
- Most famous book: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- J.D. Salinger, @theSalinger
- I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
- Joined Twitter in July, 2011
- Over 1k tweets
- Most famous book: The Catcher in the Rye
- Charles Dickens, @DickensSays
- Dickensian bon mots from man with beard.
- Joined Twitter in July, 2009
- Over 1k tweets
- Most famous book: A Tale of Two Cities
- Geoffrey Chaucer, @LeVostreGC
- Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton.
- Joined Twitter in December, 2011
- Over 9k tweets
- Most famous book: The Canterbury Tales
- Confucius, @ConfuciusQuote
- A healthy body is part of the foundation to creating a healthy mind! Confucius Quotes for body, mind and soul. Powered by @comdevelop
- Joined Twitter in March, 2011
- Over 500 tweets
- Most famous book: The Analects
- Kurt Vonnegut, @Kurt_Vonnegut
- Joined Twitter in May, 2009
- Over 2.5k tweets
- Most recent book: Cat’s Cradle
- Samuel Johnson, @DrSamuelJohnson
- Gouty Lexicographer of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary of Modern Life, publish’d by Square Peg. Presently in the American Colonies.
- Joined Twitter in March, 2009
- Over 4.5k tweets
- Most famous book: A Dictionary of the English Language
- Jane Austen, @JaneAustenLIVES
- We are a set of avid researchers of all things Jane Austen: essays, news, books, letters, sequels, adaptations and Austenesque quotes. WE LOVE JANE AUSTEN!
- Joined Twitter in January, 2010
- Over 11k tweets
- Most famous book: Pride and Prejudice
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