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Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-416) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction : notes of a common reader -- Agostino / Alberto Moravia -- Animal farm : a fairy story / George Orwell -- Another Brooklyn / Jacqueline Woodson -- The awakening / Kate Chopin -- The ballad of the sad cafe / Carson McCullers -- Big boy leaves home / Richard Wright -- Bonjour tristesse / Françoise Sagan -- Candide, or optimism / Voltaire -- Charlotte's web / E. B. White -- A clockwork orange / Anthony Burgess -- The country girls / Edna O'Brien -- Death in Venice / Thomas Mann -- Dept. of speculation / Jenny Offill -- The dry heart / Natalia Ginzburg -- Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton -- Evil under the sun / Agatha Christie -- The fifth child / Doris Lessing -- The ghost writer / Philip Roth -- The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The hour of the star / Clarice Lispector -- The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- If Beale Street could talk / James Baldwin -- If this is a man [survival in Auschwitz] / Primo Levi -- July's people / Nadine Gordimer -- The lathe of heaven / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Lord of the flies / William Golding -- The lost daughter / Elena Ferrante -- The lover / Marguerite Duras -- Lucy / Jamaica Kincaid -- Maus i : a survivor's tale : my father bleeds history / Art Spiegelman -- Middle passage / Charles Johnson -- Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf -- The hours / Michael Cunningham -- The nickel boys / Colson Whitehead -- No one writes to the colonel / Gabriel García Marquez -- The old man and the sea / Ernest Hemingway -- On Chesil Beach / Ian McEwan -- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Oranges are not the only fruit / Jeanette Winterson -- Pale horse, pale rider / Katherine Anne Porter -- A pale view of hills / Kazuo Ishiguro -- Passing / Nella Larsen -- The perfect nanny / Leïla Slimani - |
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- A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce -- The postman always rings twice / James M. Cain -- The prime of miss Jean Brodie / Muriel Spark -- The red badge of courage / Stephen Crane -- Rita Hayworth and Shawshank redemption / Stephen King -- The sailor who fell from grace with the sea / Yukio Mishima -- The stranger / Albert Camus -- Sula / Toni Morrison -- Surfacing / Margaret Atwood -- Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe -- Tokyo ueno station / Yu Miri -- Waiting for the barbarians / J. M. Coetzee -- We have always lived in the castle / Shirley Jackson -- Wilde Sargasso sea / Jean Rhys -- Afterword : what's not here -- My favorite fifteen great short books -- Index of entries by date of publication -- Index of entries by author's last name -- Nobel prize in literature laureates in this book -- More great short books -- Acknowledgments -- Notes about the books. |
| Summary |
"An entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time looks at works from the eighteenth century to the present day, spanning multiple genres, cultures, and countries." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Best books.
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Books and reading.
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Moravia, Alberto, 1907-1990, author.
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Orwell, George, 1903-1950 uthor.
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Woodson, Jacqueline, author.
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Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904, author.
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McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967, author.
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Wright, Richard, author.
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Sagen, Francoise, author.
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Voltaire, 1694-1778, author.
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White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985, author.
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Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993, author.
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O'Brien, Edna, author.
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Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955, author.
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Offill, Jenny, 1968- author.
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Ginzburg, Natalia, author.
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, author.
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Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976, author.
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Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013, author.
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Roth, Philip, author.
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940, author.
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Lispector, Clarice, author.
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Cisneros, Sandra, author.
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Baldwin, James, 1841-1925, author.
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Levi, Primo, 1919-1987, author.
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Gordimer, Nadine, author.
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Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018, author.
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Golding, William, 1911-1993, author.
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Ferrante, Elena, author.
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Duras, Marguerite, author.
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Kincaid, Jamaica, author.
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Spiegelman, Art, author.
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Johnson, Charles, author.
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, author.
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Cunningham, Michael, author.
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Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author.
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García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014, author.
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961, author.
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McEwan, Ian, author.
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Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008, author.
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Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- author.
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Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980, author.
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Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- author.
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Larsen, Nella, author.
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Slimani, Leïla, 1981- author.
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Joyce, James, author.
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Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977, author.
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Spark, Muriel, author.
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Crane, Stephen, author.
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King, Stephen, author.
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Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970, author.
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Camus, Albert, 1913-1960, author.
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Morrison, Toni, author.
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Atwood, Margaret, 1939- author.
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Hurston, Zora Neale, author.
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Achebe, Chinua, author.
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Miri, Yu, author.
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Coetzee, J. M., 1940- author.
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Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965, author.
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Rhys, Jean, author.
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| Other title |
A year of reading--briefly |
| ISBN |
9781982180034
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198218003X
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