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
  2. 2.
    Fahrenheit 451 (Ave Fenix)
    by Ray Bradbury
  3. 3.
    WAITING FOR GODOT-TRAGICOMEDY IN 2 ACTS
    by Samuel Beckett
  5. 5.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  6. 6.
    A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Tennessee Williams
  7. 7.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  8. 8.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    by Thorton Wilder
  9. 9.
    One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
    by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  10. 10.
    Captains Courageous
    by Rudyard Kipling
  11. 11.
    Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

  12. 12.
    The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald
  13. 13.
    ?
    Knowle, John-A Separate Peace

  14. 14.
    Death of a Salesman
    by Arthur Miller
  15. 15.
    Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New))
    by Patrick McCarthy
  16. 16.
    Breakfast at Tiffany's (Essential Penguin)
    by Truman Capote
  17. 17.
    The Turn of the Screw - Literary Touchstone Classic
    by Henry James
  18. 18.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James Mallahan Cain
  19. 19.
    O Pioneers!
    by Willa Cather
  20. 20.
    Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
    by James Hilton
  21. 21.
    ?
    The Sorrows of Young Werther
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  22. 22.
    A Room of One's Own
    by Virginia Woolf
  23. 23.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev
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Created by jillelvish on Oct 02, 2008.
 

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