Melville House Art of the Novella Series
Lady Susan
$12.95 – Paperback book / Melville House
"I AM INDEED PROVOKED AT THE ARTIFICE OF THIS UNPRINCIPLED WOMAN."
Thus high-spirited tale, told through and exchange of letters, is unique in Jane Austen’s small body of work. It is the story of Lady Susan, a brilliant,... Buy or find out more →
The Duel
$14.95 – Paperback book / Melville House Publishing
One of the few novellas written by the master German playwright, The Duel was considered by Thomas Mann and others to be one of the great works of German literature. The story of a virtuous woman slandered by a nobleman,... Buy or find out more →
The Duel
$17.95 – Paperback book / Melville House Publishing
One of Chekhovs most important lengthy works, this remarkable story gives a startling twist to his classic, ongoing study of bourgeois romance when he sets it on a collision course with a decaying, Czarist concept of hon... Buy or find out more →
A Simple Heart
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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 practice by literature's greatest writers. In the ART OF THE... Buy or find out more →
The Duel
$14.95 – Paperback book / Melville House Publishing
"HAVEN'T YOU HEARD OF THE DUEL GOING ON EVER SINCE 1801?"
Conrad’s brilliantly ironic tale about two officers in Napoleon’s Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout the Napole... Buy or find out more →
Jacob's Room
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HE LEFT EVERYTHING JUST AS IT WAS...DID HE THINK HE WOULD COME BACK?
Jacob’s Room was the first book in Virginia Woolf’s unique, experimental style, making it an important text of early Modernism. Ostensibly, the story i... Buy or find out more →
The Duel
$18.95 – Paperback book / Melville House Publishing
HER MOUTH WAS ALMOST PRESSED AGAINST HIS, AND HER WORDS WERE LIKE QUICK, HURRIED KISSES: "YOU MUST ABSOLUTELY GO THROUGH WITH THE DUEL TOMORROW."
An absorbing saga about the brutalities of military life upon its own sold... Buy or find out more →
The Awakening
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SHE WANTED TO SWIM FAR OUT, WHERE NO WOMAN HAD SWUM BEFORE.
Condemned as “sordid” and “immoral” on its publication in 1899, this story of a woman trapped in her marriage effectively ended Chopin’s career but was revived ... Buy or find out more →
May Day
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ALL CROWDS HAVE TO HOWL
Although F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for the kind of subtle, polished social commentary found in his masterpiece The Great Gatsby, his little-known novella May Day is unique in that it is the mos... Buy or find out more →
Tales Of Belkin
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IVAN PETROVICH BELKIN LEFT BEHIND A GREAT NUMBER OF MANUSCRIPTS....MOST OF THEM, AS IVAN PETROVICH TOLD ME, WERE TRUE STORIES HEARD FROM VARIOUS PEOPLE.
First published anonymously in 1830, Alexander Pushkin’s Tales of B... Buy or find out more →
Rasselas, Prince Of Abyssinia
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HIS CHIEF AMUSEMENT WAS TO PICTURE TO HIMSELF THAT WORLD WHICH HE HAD NEVER SEEN, TO PLACE HIMSELF IN VARIOUS CONDITIONS, TO BE ENTANGLED IN IMAGINARY DIFFICULTIES, AND TO BE ENGAGED IN WILD ADVENTURES....
The other grea... Buy or find out more →
The Duel
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IT WAS HIS INTENTION TO TRADE A FEW SWORD-THRUSTS IN SOME PLACE OR ANOTHER, AND GET THE BUSINESS OVER WITH.
In this autobiographical tale, a young dandy is forced to flee his hometown after falling afoul of the authoriti... Buy or find out more →
Parnassus On Wheels
$13.99 – Paperback book / Melville House Publishing
I IMAGINED HIM IN HIS BELOVED BROOKLYN, STROLLING IN PROSPECT PARK AND PREACHING TO CHANCE COMERS ABOUT HIS GOSPEL OF GOOD BOOKS.
“When you sell a man a book,” says Roger Mifflin, the sprite-like book peddler at the cent... Buy or find out more →
A Sleep And A Forgetting
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Nowhere in the prodigious output of William Dean Howells is there an example more poignant of his heartfelt dedication to the realist movement than this achingly suspenseful novella.
The story centers on a young “alienis... Buy or find out more →
The Death Of Ivan Ilych
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Written eight years after the publication of Anna Karenina—a time during which, despite the global success of his novels, Leo Tolstoy renounced fiction in favor of religious and philosophical tracts—THE DEATH OF IVAN ILY... Buy or find out more →
The Man Who Would Be King
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Literature’s most famous adventure story, this stirring tale of two happy-go-lucky British ne’re-do-wells trying to carve out their own kingdom in the remote mountains of Afghanistan has also proved over time to be a wor... Buy or find out more →
Freya Of The Seven Isles
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This little-known novella from one of the masters of the form is so unusual for Joseph Conrad's work in several respects, although not in its exotic maritime setting or its even more exotic prose—it is unusual in that it... Buy or find out more →
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
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"WHY, YOU SIMPLE CREATURES, THE WEAKEST OF ALL WEAK THINGS IS A VIRTUE WHICH HAS NOT BEEN TESTED IN THE FIRE."
Written on hotel stationery while Twain was in Europe on the run from American creditors, soon after the deat... Buy or find out more →
How The Two Ivans Quarrelled
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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. In The ART OF TH... Buy or find out more →
Touchstone
$21.95 – Paperback book /
GLENNARD HAD NEVER THOUGHT HIMSELF A HERO: BUT HE HAD BEEN CERTAIN THAT HE WAS INCAPABLE OF BASENESS
The story of a young man who scorns the love of a tortured novelist, only to have her words come back to haunt him from... Buy or find out more →
The Lifted Veil
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HORROR WAS MY FAMILIAR.
Published the same year as her first novel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work displays the gifts for which George Eliot would become famous—gritty realism, psychological insight, and idealistic mora... Buy or find out more →
The Horla
$16.95 – Paperback book /
OUR WOE IS UPON US.
This chilling tale of one man’s descent into madness was published shortly before the author was institutionalized for insanity, and so, The Horla has inevitably been seen as informed by Guy de Maupas... Buy or find out more →
The Eternal Husband
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THE MOST MONSTROUS MONSTER IS THE MONSTER WITH NOBLE FEELINGS.
This remarkably edgy and suspenseful tale shows that, despite being better known for his voluminous and sprawling novels, Fyodor Dostoevsky was a master of t... Buy or find out more →
Michael Kohlhaas
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"YOU CAN SEND ME TO THE SCAFFOLD, BUT I CAN MAKE YOU SUFFER, AND I MEAN TO."
Based on historical events, this thrilling saga of violence and retribution bridges the gap between Medieval and modern literature, and speaks ... Buy or find out more →
The Girl With The Golden Eyes
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WHEN THE NIGHT CAME, HE WENT TO THE MEETING-PLACE, AND QUIETLY LET HIMSELF BE BLINDFOLDED.
Raw as Honoré de Balzac is famed to be, this daring novella—never before published as a stand-alone book—is perhaps the most outl... Buy or find out more →
The Lemoine Affair
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THEIR FRIEND MARCEL PROUST HAD KILLED HIMSELF AFTER THE FALL IN DIAMOND SHARES, A COLLAPSE THAT ANNIHILATED A PART OF HIS FORTUNE.
THE LEMOINE AFFAIR was inspired by the real-life French scandal involving Henri Lemoine, ... Buy or find out more →
The Dialogue Of The Dogs
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"EVER SINCE I COULD CHASE A BONE, I'VE LONGED TO TALK...."
The first talking-dog story in Western literature—from the writer generally acknowledged, alongside William Shakespeare, as the founding father of modern literat... Buy or find out more →
Stempenyu
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VEN THE MOST PIOUS JEW NEED NOT SHED SO MANY TEARS OVER THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AS THE WOMEN WERE IN THE HABIT OF SHEDDING WHEN STEMPENYU WAS PLAYING
The first work of Sholom Aleichem’s to be translated into English... Buy or find out more →
Mathilda
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BUT MY FATHER, MY BELOVED AND MOST WRETCHED FATHER...WOULD HE NEVER OVERCOME THE FIERCE PASSION THAT NOW HELD PITILESS DOMINION OVER HIM?
With its shocking theme of father-daughter incest, Mary Shelley’s publisher—her fa... Buy or find out more →
The Nice Old Man And The Pretty Girl
$13.95 – Paperback book / Melville House Publishing
THE SIN OF AN OLD MAN IS EQUAL TO ABOUT TWO SINS OF A YOUNG MAN
The fable-like story of an old man’s sexual obsession with a young woman is a distillation of Italo Svevo’s concerns–attraction of an older man to a younger... Buy or find out more →