Publisher's Synopsis
The Art of The Novella
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. The Art of the Novella collection celebrates this renegade art form and it's most illustrious practitioners with 42 of the most famous novellas ever published.
"Elegant-looking paperback editions…a good read in a small package."
-The Wall Street Journal
The Art of the Novella collection includes one each of the following titles:
A Simple Heartby Gustave Flaubert
A Sleep and a Forgettingby William Dean Howells
Adolpheby Benjamin Constant
The Awakeningby Kate Chopin
Bartleby the Scrivenerby Herman Melville
The Beach at Falesaby Robert Lewis Stevenson
Benito Cerenoby Herman Melville
The Country of the Pointed Firsby Sarah Orne Jewett
The Coxon Fundby Henry James
The Deadby James Joyce
The Death of Ivan Ilychby Leo Tolstoy
The Devilby Leo Tolstoy
The Dialogues of the Dogsby Miguel de Cervantes
The Eternal Husbandby Fyodor Dostoevsky
First Loveby Ivan Turgenev
Freya of the Seven Islesby Joseph Conrad
The Girl with the Golden Eyesby Honore de Balzac
The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan Doyle
The Horlaby Guy de Maupassant
How the Two Ivans Quarrelledby Nikolai Gogal
Jacob's Roomby Virginia Woolf
Lady Susanby Jane Austen
The Lemoine Affairby Marcel Proust
The Lesson of the Masterby Henry James
The Lifted Veilby George Eliot
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburgby Mark Twain
The Man Who Would be Kingby Rudyard Kipling
Mathildaby Mary Shelley
May Dayby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Michael Kohlassby Heinrich Von Kleist
My Lifeby Anton Chekhov
The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girlby Italo Svevo
Parnassus on Wheelsby Christopher Morley
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssiniaby Samuel Johnson
Stempenyu: A Jewish Romanceby Sholem Aleichem
Tales of Belkinby Alexander Pushkin
The Touchstoneby Edith Warton
The Duelby Giacomo Casanova
The Duelby Joseph Conrad
The Duelby Anton Chekhov
The Duelby Heinrich Von Kleist
The Duelby Aleksandr Kuprin
"I wanted them all, even those I'd already read."
-Ron Rosenbaum
