jillelvish's "Very Short Classics With Which to Impress Your Friends"

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Every classic book listed here is fewer than 200 pages. Wow your profs! Make the opposite sex think you’ve got the grey stuff in spades! Amaze and astound people by dropping names of heavy-sounding books into conversations. They don’t have to know you polished ‘em off in a few hours each.

"Well, as Voltaire said in Candide. . ."
"Solzhenitsyn hit upon this very theme in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. . ."

  1. 1.
    Of Mice and Men
    by John Steinbeck

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  2. 2.
    Fahrenheit 451 (Ave Fenix)
    by Ray Bradbury

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  3. 3.
    WAITING FOR GODOT-TRAGICOMEDY IN 2 ACTS
    by Samuel Beckett

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  4. 5.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  5. 6.
    A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Tennessee Williams

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  6. 7.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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  7. 8.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    by Thornton Wilder

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  8. 9.
    One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
    by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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  9. 10.
    Captains Courageous
    by Rudyard Kipling

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  10. 11.
    Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

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  11. 12.
    The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

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  12. 13.
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    Knowle, John-A Separate Peace

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  13. 14.
    Death of a Salesman
    by Arthur Miller

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  14. 15.
    Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New))
    by Patrick McCarthy

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  15. 16.
    Breakfast at Tiffany's (Essential.penguin)
    by Truman Capote

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  16. 17.
    The Turn of the Screw - Literary Touchstone Classic
    by Henry James

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  17. 18.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James Mallahan Cain

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  18. 19.
    O Pioneers!
    by Willa Cather

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  19. 20.
    Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
    by James Hilton

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  20. 21.
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    The Sorrows of Young Werther
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  21. 22.
    A Room of One's Own
    by Virginia Woolf

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  22. 23.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

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Created by jillelvish on Oct 02, 2008.
 

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