This is not a good idea. Orion Books is going to reprint some literary classics by Tolstoy, Dickens and Thackeray in slimmed down versions. Called compact editions, Orion Group publisher Malcolm Edwards said, "We realised that life is too short to read all the books you want to and we never were going to read these ones."
Nice try, but that's not the issue.
To understand and appreciate great literature, you have to read the entire book, and not just a Coles Notes-like version. While it may appeal to people who don't have time to read classics like Anna Karenina or War and Peace, you won't get the full flavour of the book or the great writing style inside it.
In other words, I say make the effort and read the original text.
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