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

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.
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 Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
  
2. Fahrenheit 451 (Ave Fenix)
by Ray Bradbury
  
3.
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 WAITING FOR GODOT-TRAGICOMEDY IN 2 ACTS
by Samuel Beckett
  
4.
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 Candide (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Hardcover)
by Voltaire
  
5. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
6. A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)
by Tennessee Williams
  
7. The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
by H.G. Wells
  
8. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
  
9.
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 One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  
10. Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling
  
11.
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 Siddhartha by Herman Hesse  
13. The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)
by F.Scott Fitzgerald
  
14.
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 Knowle, John-A Separate Peace  
15.
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 Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
  
16. Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New))
by Patrick McCarthy
  
17. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Essential.penguin)
by Truman Capote
  
18. The Turn of the Screw - Literary Touchstone Classic
by Henry James
  
19. The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James Mallahan Cain
  
20.
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 O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
  
21. Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
by James Hilton
  
22.
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 The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
23. A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
  
24. Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
  
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Created by jillelvish on Oct 02, 2008.