Seattle Public Library Short Classics

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Want to read a classic, but just don’t have time for War and Peace? Great Books come in all shapes and sizes. The following mini-masterpieces pack a powerful impact in under 200 pages. (Page numbers are approximate, and will vary with edition.)

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  1. 1.
    The Metamorphosis
    by Franz Kafka
  2. 2.
    The Death of Ivan Ilych

  3. 3.
    Death in Venice
    by Thomas Mann
  4. 4.
    Daisy Miller
    by Henry James
  5. 5.
    The Little Prince
    by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  6. 6.
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    The Old Man and The Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway
  7. 7.
    Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics (Simon & Schuster))
    by Herman Melville
  8. 8.
    Night
    by Elie Wiesel
  9. 9.
    Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad
  10. 10.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell
  11. 11.
    The Time Machine
    by H. G. Wells
  12. 12.
    Siddhartha
    by Hermann Hesse
  13. 13.
    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  14. 14.
    Anthem
    by Ayn Rand
  15. 15.
    The Stranger (Everyman's Library)
    by Albert Camus
  16. 16.
    Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  17. 17.
    Notes from the Underground
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  18. 18.
    Pudd'nhead Wilson
    by Mark Twain
  19. 19.
    Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  20. 20.
    Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
    by Francois Voltaire
  21. 21.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
    by Thornton Wilder
  22. 22.
    The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
    by Thomas Pynchon
  23. 23.
    The Member of the Wedding
    by Carson McCullers
  24. 24.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  25. 25.
    The Sorrows of Young Werther
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  26. 26.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury
  27. 27.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe
  28. 28.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess
  29. 29.
    If Beale Street Could Talk
    by James Baldwin
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Created by bwittkop on Aug 17, 2010.
 

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