18 books like Forms of the Novella

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The Dead James Joyce · 1965 · ★ 4.0 · 71p · ≈ 2h · Moderate "The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. The story deals with themes of love and loss as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity. ---------- Also contained in: Best Short Stories of the Modern Age Dubliners Dubliners / Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Essential James Joyce Fiction 100 Fictions Norton Anthology of Short… Shares: Christmas fiction, 20th century English fiction, Christmas stories, Christmas

The Modern Tradition - Second Edition Daniel F. Howard · 1972 · ★ 4.0 · 646p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Preserve food without invasive processing with these groundbreaking technologies Consumer demand for less processed foods have skyrocketed in recent decades. There is a growing desire for foods perceived as fresher and healthier than the products of traditional preservation processes, such as canning. A wide variety of new nonthermal processing techniques have emerged to meet this demand,… Shares: Christmas fiction, 20th century English fiction, Christmas stories, Christmas

The lost word Henry van Dyke · 1898 · ★ 3.8 · 71p · ≈ 2h · Challenging A nice short story by Henry Van Dyke. Hermas wanders until he meets a priest in a glade who promises to allow him to enjoy life, and the story goes from there. There is an appearance of John Chrysostom, a well-known figure in the history of the Christian church. Shares: Christmas stories, Christmas, Christian Fiction

Christmas Eve with Mr. Pickwick Charles Dickens · 1897 · 77p · ≈ 2h · Challenging In tribute to the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, Delphi Classics is pleased to introduce Dickensiana, a first of its kind e-compilation of period accounts of Dickens’s life and works, rare 19th and early 20th century books and articles about Dickens and Dickensian locales, reminiscences by family, friends and colleagues, tribute poems, parodies, satires and sequels based on his… Shares: Christmas stories, Christmas

The rose and the ring William Makepeace Thackeray · 1854 · ★ 3.8 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The Rose and the Ring is one of those special literary treats which happen when a writer for adults turns his attention to the world of children. It's a classic fairy tale, told with Thackeray's customary insight into characters, an excellent story for reading aloud to children. Shares: Christmas stories, Christmas, British and irish fiction, History

Debits and credits Rudyard Kipling · 1926 · ★ 3.6 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Debits and Credits, Rudyard Kipling. TEI XML version of http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/debits/ . Shares: British and irish fiction, Short Stories

Christian short stories Mark Booth · 1984 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This New York Times bestselling work reimagines world history though the belief systems of Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Kabbalists, and others. They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history as we know it written by the wrong people? What if everything we've been told is only part of the story? In this groundbreaking and controversial work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling… Shares: Christian Fiction, Short Stories

Holidays on Ice David Sedaris · 1997 · ★ 3.9 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Moderate A collection of Christmas stories. The story Dinah, the Christmas Whore, describes the reaction of a family when a daughter brings home a prostitute, while SantaLand Diaries is on a department store elf. Shares: Christmas stories, Christmas, Short Stories

Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe · 1686 · ★ 3.7 · 123p · ≈ 4h · Demanding During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600's, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. Shares: British and irish fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Adventure

Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson · 1880 · ★ 3.9 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as seen in Long John Silver — unusual for children's literature then and now. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates… Shares: Sea Stories, Classics, Historical Fiction, Adventure

The experience of literature Lionel Trilling · 1967 · ★ 4.0 · 1320p · ≈ 44h · Challenging Table of Contents (the following all with commentaries/criticism): Sophocles - Oedipus Rex; William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Lear; Henrik Ibsen - The Wild Duck; Anton Chekhov - The Three Sisters; George Bernard Shaw - The Doctor's Dilemma; Luigi Pirandello - Six Characters in Search of an Author: a comdey in the making; William Butler Years - Purgatory; Bertolt Brecht - Galileo;… Shares: 20th century English fiction, Christian Fiction, Psychology

Within the tides Joseph Conrad · 1915 · ★ 3.6 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Challenging In the private editorial office of the principal newspaper in a great colonial city two men were talking. They were both young. The stouter of the two, fair, and with more of an urban look about him, was the editor and part-owner of the important newspaper. Shares: British and irish fiction, Short Stories

Skipping Christmas John Grisham · 1998 · ★ 3.6 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Luther and Nora Krank decide that, just this once, they'll skip Christmas altogether. Theirs will be the only house on the street without a rooftop Frosty the snowman; they won't be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash; they aren't even going to have a tree. They won't need one, because come December 25 they're setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But, as this weary couple is about to discover,… Shares: Christmas stories, Christmas, Christian Fiction

In black and white Rudyard Kipling · 1880 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Tales of native life in India, in Oriental style. Shares: Short Stories, Adventure

Irish Fairy Tales James Stephens · 1968 · ★ 3.5 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A collection of ten traditional tales of Irish heroes, kings, soldiers, magicians, poets, and madmen. Shares: Sea Stories, Short Stories

Psychology John B. Watson · 1913 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Challenging While this volume is written as a series of lectures and in a somewhat free and easy style, every effort has been made to present facts in unmutilated form and to state theoretical positions with accuracy. In approaching subjective psychology for the first time, the reader meets with one great difficulty. He comes in from the world of things-a world which he can manipulate, hold up, examine and… Shares: Psychology, History

Billy Budd Herman Melville · 1900 · ★ 3.2 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Challenging TRIALS OF THE HANDSOME SAILOR Aboard the warship Bellipotent, the young orphan Billy Budd was called the Handsome Sailor. Billy was tall, athletic, noble looking; he was friendly, innocent, helpful and ever-cheerful. He was a fierce fighter and a loyal friend. All the men and officers liked him... All but one: Master-at-Arms Claggart. Envious, petty Claggart plotted to make Billy's life… Shares: Sea Stories, Classics, Historical Fiction, Adventure

Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies C.S. Forester · 1956 · ★ 4.2 · 283p · ≈ 9h · Moderate As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. Shares: Sea Stories, Historical Fiction, Adventure, History

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