About

The great books are longer than they are good. Inside each of them is some of the most extraordinary writing that exists; around that writing is a great deal of everything else. Naughty Parts Of prints the first thing without the second — the actual text, uncut within each passage, chosen and arranged so that a reader gets the reason each book is famous in a single sitting.

Each volume states its exact arithmetic: how many words the author wrote, how many are kept here, and how long the whole selection takes to read. How the selections are made is described on the methodology page.