Seriously. Keep guessing. You're never going to figure it out.
Seriously. Keep guessing. Youre never going to figure it out.
  • Seriously. Keep guessing. You’re never going to figure it out.

This sassy country lass is the new face of a certain literary character who may or may not be my favorite heroine of all time. That’s a trickโ€”she is 100% ABSOLUTELY my favorite. Can you guess who this Prelled-up hayseed honey is supposed to be? I hear you screaming “Elizabeth Wakefield” with a fervor that would fill Liz’s Sweet Valley High gossip column with 1,000 blind items. But how wrong you are. “Well, I don’t know. Did they sex up Winnie from Tuck Everlasting, so she’d be a more sultry toad-harasser?” Ha! I wish. Check out the egregious answer after the jump, plus a few more pictures of book-cover makeovers gone off the the fucking rails.

Like this chick could hold her cherry cordial. Pssssh.
  • Like this chick could hold her cherry cordial. Pssssh.
Now this is a bad-ass bitch who can drink enough cherry cordials to make a grown sailor cry.
  • Now this is a bad-ass bitch who can drink enough cherry cordials to make a grown sailor cry.

Jezebel has a gallery of effed-up book makeovers, like this doozy of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jarโ€”only the most depressing and awesome novel that has ever been noveled. In a litany of questions I have about this makeover monstrosity: Does anyone else not understand why there’s no actual makeup in that compact?

I just really dont understand this compact. Why is it comically large? Why is Esther Greenwood applying a falsie to her face? So many questions...
  • I just really don’t understand this compact. Why is it comically large? Why is Esther Greenwood applying a falsie to her face? So many questions…

Thus ends your daily report of Literary Treasures That Have Been Shat Upon.

Mercury copy chief and appreciator of the most sophisticated form of comedy: PUNS!

2 replies on “Guess the Famous Literary Character!”

  1. Gilbert calling Anne “Carrots” is going to be quite mysterious now…a reference to catching her enjoying the garden a bit too much perhaps?

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