Cigarette-sized literature
Behold these shrunken mini-cigarette-sized literature books offering Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde. Why smoke when you can read fine pieces of literature in a similar sized box? They’re seriously cooler than school.
Tagged: Joseph Conrad, Leo Tolstoy, Robert Louis Stevenson
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