Melville House Art of the Novella Series
The Pathseeker
$22.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for “writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.” The acclaimed Hungarian Holocaust survivor Imre... Buy or find out more→
Sandokan
$19.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
A major Italian author’s tale of growing up with Italy’s most brutal criminal enterprise, the Camorra. This striking novella is based on first-hand research of the Camorra, an Italian organized crime network more... Buy or find out more→
Lucinella
$19.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
Lore Segal's tour de force look at the New York literary scene was a hit when it was first released in the 1970s, winning the praise of the literary elite. John Garnder called it “magical.” William Gass said it was “witty,... Buy or find out more→
The North of God
$17.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
Here in a place dedicated to the manufacture of fear-a place that one ghoul of a Rebbe declared was located to the North of God, where his jurisdicition no longer held sway-Velvl found himself developing a certain... Buy or find out more→
The Death of the Author
$19.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
By the author of Love and Death of Long Island and The Holy Innocents , this is a black satire of contemporary theoretical cultishness and a metaphysical murder mystery, featuring Professor Leopold Sfax, the critic, theorist... Buy or find out more→
Union Jack
$18.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
"It was...unnecessary for me to fret about who the murderer was: Everybody was." A haunting, never-before-translated, autobiographical novella by the 2002 Nobel Prize winner. An unnamed narrator recounts a simple... Buy or find out more→
Lady Susan
$12.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
Epistolary novel written presumably between 1793-1794 and originally published 1871 in Edward Austen-Leigh's A Memoir of Jane Austen. Buy or find out more→
Duel
$14.95 – Paperback / 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, it is... Buy or find out more→
The Duel
$15.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can... Buy or find out more→
Jacob's Room
$12.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
A young man, Jacob, consistently yearns for something greater and, in an attempt to resuscitate his love of the classics, he embarks on a voyage to the Mediterranean before the war begins and his fate is forever altered. Buy or find out more→
The Duel
$18.95 – Paperback / 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... Buy or find out more→
The Awakening
$12.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
Features explanations of themes, motifs, and symbols, analyses of characters and quotes, plot summaries and analysis, an exploration of historical context, and facts and essay topics. Buy or find out more→
May Day
$12.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
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... Buy or find out more→
Tales of Belkin
$12.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
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... Buy or find out more→
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
$12.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
The other great book by the man who wrote the dictionary: This is Dr. Samuel Johnson's beautiful, engaging, and ultimately inspiring story of a royal brother and sister who escape the castle and, traveling in disguise, search for... Buy or find out more→
The Duel
$16.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
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... Buy or find out more→
Parnassus on Wheels
$12.95 – Paperback / 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... Buy or find out more→
A Sleep and a Forgetting
$14.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
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... Buy or find out more→
The Death of Ivan Ilych
$13.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
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 ILYCH... Buy or find out more→
The Man Who Would be King
$14.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
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 work of... Buy or find out more→
Freya of the Seven Isles
$16.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
First published in The New York metropolitan magazine and London magazine in January 1912 and July 1912, respectively; collected in Twixt land and sea. Buy or find out more→
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
$16.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from Penguin Classics titles. Buy or find out more→
How the Two Ivans Quarrelled
$16.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
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 THE... Buy or find out more→
The Touchstone
$12.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
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
$12.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
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... Buy or find out more→
The Horla
$12.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
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... Buy or find out more→
The Eternal Husband
$17.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
A rich and idle man confronts his dead mistress' husband. This novel offers an exploration of love, guilt, and hatred. Buy or find out more→
Michael Kohlhaas
$12.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
"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 Lemoine Affair
$12.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
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→
Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance
$12.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
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... Buy or find out more→
Mathilda
$12.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
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... Buy or find out more→
The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl
$12.95 – Paperback / 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→
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
$16.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
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... Buy or find out more→
Dialogue Of The Dogs
$13.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
"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... Buy or find out more→