The Iron Man - Ted Hughes (technically a kids' book but I think it qualifies as a novella too).At the Bay - Katherine Mansfield
― franny glass, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Balzac's Colonel Chabert
― Randy will be autographing copies of his fascinating autobiography (dyao), Thursday, 17 September 2009 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Self-plug here: I used to write about novellas for Bookslut ( http://www.bookslut.com/Small%20but%20Perfectly%20Formed.php ) until I realised that the editor didn't give a fuck about her contributors.
― When two tribes go to war, he always gets picked last (James Morrison), Thursday, 17 September 2009 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm struggling to remember if any of the internal stories in Don Quixote or The Manuscript found in Saragossa (need to re-read this, I can barely remember it) are long enough to be novellas
'La novela del curioso impertinente', with Anselmo & Lotario, goes on for nearly fifty pages in my edition of DQ.
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 17 September 2009 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~ladamic/pics/sommer.jpg
This is also one of my favorites. Hard to find, so pick up a copy if you ever come across one.
― Squash weather (Eazy), Thursday, 17 September 2009 01:10 (fourteen years ago) link
oh i read "the pigeon" (and "perfume" obv. which isn't a novella) and it is great
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 September 2009 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Pnin by Nabokov
v. amusing
― sam500, Thursday, 17 September 2009 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i love pnin but it's a novel
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 September 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
he has some good novellas though - the eye, transparent things
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 September 2009 01:46 (fourteen years ago) link
what i'd like to find is a warm novelette.
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 17 September 2009 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/6628/208blognormal.jpg
― bamcquern, Thursday, 17 September 2009 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Some of these are definitely novels.
I don't normally dig list threads, but this one I like.
― bamcquern, Thursday, 17 September 2009 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link
salinger - raise high the roofbeams, carpenters is my favorite thing that he did
― Girls, meet team; team, meet girls (hmmmm), Thursday, 17 September 2009 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
miss lonelyhearts nathanael west― kamerad, Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― kamerad, Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
YESSSSSSSSSS.
One of my all-time favorite reads.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 17 September 2009 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Conrad has a bunch of novellas that are less o_O than Heart of Darkness, like The Secret Sharer and Youth.
Also, Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity.
Most of Jim Thompson's novels are short enough to be considered novellas, if you're going by word count.
― Brad C., Thursday, 17 September 2009 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
― Randy will be autographing copies of his fascinating autobiography (dyao), Wednesday, September 16, 2009 8:30 PM (1 month ago)
^^^
― harbl, Saturday, 24 October 2009 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Ethan Canin - Batorsag and Szerelem is my absolute favourite.
also:
Melville's "Bartelby the Scrivener" Dostoyevski's "Notes from Underground"Salinger's "Zooey"
― jed_, Saturday, 24 October 2009 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link