Classic Short Story & Novella Recommendations

[@isabellemenez5704]

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[@jackiesliterarycorner]

This might be something to consider since I'll be taking my trip to London this month. I have a collection of Oscar Wilde's work I could read and possibly some other shorter works to read for this readathon.

[@LuminousLibro]

That sounds great! Have a safe trip!

[@jackiesliterarycorner]

Thank you.

[@kathleencraine7335]

OK, you asked for it 🤣 My long list of favorite Classic novellas and long short stories, 150 pages or less: Seize the Day, Saul Bellow, 114 pages A Month in the Country, J. L. Carr, 135 pages ❤❤one of my all-time favorites A Lost Lady, Willa Cather, 150 pages (BUT short pages & lots of space in my edition)❤ Alexander's Bridge, Willa Cather, 116 pages The Poor Clare, Elizabeth Gaskell, 92 pages The Moorland Cottage, Elizabeth Gaskell, 135 pages❤ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass, 76 pages The Lifted Veil & Brother Jacob, two short stories, George Eliot, combined 87 pages 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff, 97 pages ❤❤another all-time favorite The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett, 131 pages❤ Passing, Nella Larsen, 114 pages❤ Quicksand, Nella Larsen, 125 pages The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy, 53 pages The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy, 72 pages The Lady of Launay, Anthony Trollope, 94 pages The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West, 90 pages❤ ....and one nonfiction: Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort, Edith Wharton, 112 pages; Wharton reporting from the battlefields of France during WWI I'll be reading some of these new-to-me titles: My Mortal Enemy, Willa Cather, 85 pages At Fault, Kate Chopin, 130 pages A Bad Business: Essential Stories, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 284 pages (6 stories) At Freddie's, Penelope Fitzgerald, 160 pages The Sunny Side: Short Stories & Poems for Proper Grown-Ups, A. A. Milne, 312 pages (not sure how many stories) The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, Ann Radcliffe, 113 pages Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, Robert Louis Stevenson, 149 pages A Month in the Country, Ivan Turgenev, a play, 123 pages

[@LuminousLibro]

Moorland Cottage! I forgot about that one! Love it! I read Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne a few years ago, but was disappointed in it. Not her best work.

[@kathleencraine7335]

Yes, I love Moorland Cottage, too. Sorry to hear about the Radcliffe, but at least it's short so my disappointment will be brief!😉

[@alfredocalloni325]

Hello! I would like to recommend a book: The saga of Gösta Berling, novella that was written by Selma Lagerlöf. This writer loved Walter Scott´s books and Alexander Dumas´s books. The saga of Gösta Berling was her best novella. Besides, Selma Lagerlöf was the first woman that won the Nobel Prize. The novella that I mentioned was made into a film, that was the debut of Greta Garbo. The book is marvellous! I love it. May be you will enjoy it.

[@nat4465]

This is great, thank you 😊 I just got my first ereader and this will be great for me to take advantage of it as much as possible. I’m curious about the Louisa May Alcott thrillers and Nathaniel Hawthorne

[@LuminousLibro]

You can probably find a lot of these books on the Gutenberg Project. Good luck with all your reading!