Novellas
A Christmas Carol
Life: it will hurt you sooner or later. You can respond one way or the other: with faith in compassi..
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A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet is the first of four full-length novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the b..
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A Tedious Story (From An Old Man's Journal)
Influenced by the death of his brother Nicolay from tuberculosis, Chekhov’s novel..
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An Anonymous Story
An Anonymous Story is a novella published in 1893 that has also been translated as The Story of a No..
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Anthem
Anthem is set in a dystopian future Dark Age in which totalitarianism has extinguished individuality..
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
In an October 1939 radio broadcast Winston Churchill described his difficulty in understanding the a..
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Billy Budd, Sailor
In 1886, after writing poetry exclusively for 30 years, Herman Melville began work on a story about ..
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Candide, or the Optimism
Is this the best of all possible worlds? The title character in Voltaire’s classic novel, Candide, d..
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Heart of Darkness
Aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, Marlow, the narrator of Heart of Darkness, tells a story..
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In the Penal Colony
“In the Penal Colony” centers on the use of an unusual instrument of punishment invented ..
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My Life: The Story of a Provincial
“My Life: The Story of a Provincial” (1896) is a novella that tells the story of Misail Poloznev, a ..
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Siddhartha
Siddhartha, published in 1922, tells the story of a young man who undertakes a journey of self-disco..
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The Awakening
The Awakening is one of the first American novels that focused on women’s issues and is now seen as ..
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The Call of the Wild
The hero of The Call of the Wild by Jack London is a large St. Bernard-Scotch Collie named Buck, who..
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The Dead
“The Dead” is a long short story by James Joyce that appears as the last item in Dubliners. T..
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The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is a novella by Leo Tolstoy written not long after his religious awakening..
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The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
In “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” a young man from the south, John T. Unger, is sent north to a bo..
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The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man was the fifth novel by H. G. Wells and the third of his remarkable series of five ..
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The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis tells the tale of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who one day wakes up t..
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The Sign of the Four
The Sign of the Four is the second of four full-length novels featuring the brilliant Sherlock Holme..
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
It’s rare that a book’s title becomes a staple of popular usage in the way that the phrase “Jekyll a..
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic political thriller and one of the earliest examples of the “man-o..
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The Time Machine
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells is a science fiction novel published in 1895 that postulated the noti..
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The Torrents of Spring
"The Torrents of Spring," a novella published in 1926, is a hilarious satire on the romantic and lit..
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Twelve Years A Slave
Twelve Years a Slave is a memoir by Solomon Northup, a black man who was born free in New York. The ..
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois is book everyone in America should read, a fundamental w..
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Up from Slavery
In his 1901 autobiography, Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington chronicles his personal experiences..
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the first and most popular of three memoirs Frederick..
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was one of the first books in the slave narrative genre that s..
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave reminds us that slavery at one time existed throu..
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
As owner and reporter for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight Ida B. Wells investigated numerous a..
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO WIT: Be it remembered, That on this tenth day of November, Anno Domini, e..
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The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638 - 1870
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade is a fundamental work of African-American history that is..
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