It occurs to me that a trope I'd like to either write or see in existence is the Princess Bride. Not the plot. The frame story, applied to a canon.

For those who haven't read it, the frame story on the Princess Bride is that it's a classic work of literature written by S. Morgenstern. William Goldman (the author)'s father would read him the book, doing The Good Parts version. When Goldman got older and tried to track down the book to give to his own son, he discovered that, far from being an adventure book, it's actually a dry political satire. And so Goldman proceeds to get the rights to the book and then does his own abridgement to turn it into the book his father had read to him.

The story part of Princess Bride is full of asides and abridging notes. Later editions of the Princess Bride expand on this framing, showing how the folks who love Morgenstern's book react to what Goldman did (not positive).

S. Morgenstern's book does not exist. Many canons, however, do.

And I was thinking, which canon would be great to be given The Good Parts version to, where it changes the genre to a kid's adventure novel, where all depth to the story is excised in favor of action and what the abridging author likes.

And I was considering a few and then I thought... Les Miserables. This would have to be Les Miserables.

Except it would have to be written by someone other me, because when it comes to Goldman's opening line, well, I've still never finished Les Mis. The abridgement meta would collapse entirely on me. Which may be hilarious to deal with?

But if ever there's a canon to interact with all the Good Parts Version urges, it would be that book. And it would have to be done by someone who knows enough of all the existing abridgements to make jokes about what people have already done to this book. :P