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>> No.17373904

>>17373890
Heart of Darkness

>> No.17373905

>>17373890
Animal Farm is cool

>> No.17373914

How short is short? Heart of Darkness, or Siddhartha if HoD is too long.

>> No.17373920

>>17373890
Short book as in novella? Turn of the Screw. If you mean long enough to be a novel, but still small then probably The Stranger.

>> No.17373923

>>17373914
Less than 200 pages I would say

>> No.17373924

>>17373890
Charlotte's web

>> No.17373935

>>17373924
There's one in every thread. EB White peaked with Trumpet of the Swan and everyone knows it.

>> No.17373938

>>17373923
Let's put it at less than 300

>> No.17373969

>>17373938
in that case, Sun Also Rises

>> No.17373975

Any short story by Borges
Bartleby the scrivener

>> No.17373995

By the way, OP here
I would say:
Saint manuel bueno, martyr
and
The enchiridion

>> No.17374006

The lack of diary desus disturbs me.

>> No.17374008
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17374008

This

>> No.17374040

The Call of the Wild

>> No.17374045

of mice and men

>> No.17374063
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17374063

>>17373890

>> No.17374510

>>17374040
This or Dracula.

>> No.17374782

Child of God

>> No.17374790

>>17373904
fpbp

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17374950

>>17373890
The Shadow over Innsmouth

>> No.17374954

death of ivan ilyich

>> No.17374958

Carmilla, the better vampire story

>> No.17375073

>>17374008
Correct.

>> No.17375081

>>17374045
yeah.
i like election by tom perotta because i thought it was a much better story than the movie. and it's really short and written almost like a screenplay

>> No.17375227

>>17373904
That I had to look up so many words on every page. Nasty book

>> No.17375239

Most Dangerous Game

>> No.17375295

Why are so many dumb niggas posting short stories? Like what the fuck is wrong with you nigga?

>> No.17375310

>>17373890
The Last Unicorn

>> No.17375318

>>17373975
The Circular Ruins is one of my favs by Borges >>17374950

>> No.17375441

>>17373890
I used to like all the pre-Haunted Chuck Palahniuk novels, probably read them half a dozen times each in high school. That was 10 years ago though, no idea if they hold up and anything more recent than those that I've tried to read by him have all been pure garbage

>> No.17375448

>>17373904
Cumbersome and unreadable

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The Death of Ivan Ilych

>> No.17376311

Bump

>> No.17376501

The stranger by Camus is great and really short

>> No.17377003

>>17376501
Dropped in the middle, it was boring

>> No.17377033

>>17373890
The Way of a A Pilgrim or One Day in the Life of Ivan Denosovich

>> No.17377105

>>17374782
Seconded.
>Were there darker provinces of night, he would have found them.
Love that sentence.

>> No.17377170

>>17377003
Read in French

>> No.17377202

Le vent se lève (wind rises) from Tatsuo Hori translate by Daniel Struve.

Les bonnes from Jean genet

>> No.17377338

one day in the life of ivan denisovich read it during snow storm