Melville House Art of the Novella Series

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The Union Jack

Imre Kertesz

A haunting, never-before-translated, autobiographical novella by the 2002 Nobel Prize winner.

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The Duel

Giacomo Casanova

A sparkling new translation tells the tale of a young libertine who finds his rapier wit matched by actual rapiers.

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The Duel

Heinrich von Kleist

One of the few novellas written by the master German playwright, The Duel was considered by Thomas Mann and others to be one of the great works of German literature…

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A Simple Heart

Gustave Flaubert

One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin’s 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from Penguin Classics titles.

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The Duel

Aleksandr Kuprin

An absorbing saga about the brutalities of military life. Stranded at a distant outpost, young Romashov finds himself obliged to fight a duel over something he realises is meaningless. As…

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The Awakening

Kate Chopin

Condemned as sordid and immoral on its publication in 1899, this story of a woman trapped in her marriage effectively ended Chopin’s career but was revived as a proto-feminist classic…

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Parnassus On Wheels

Christopher Morely

Originally published: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1917.

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Tales Of Belkin

Alexander Pushkin

One of the most beloved books in Russian literary history, now presented in a sparkling new translation by Josh Billings.

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Mathilda

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Shelley’s Gothic novella was not published for 140 years after she wrote it; this new edition brings together an authoritative text and a selection of biographical and cultural documents.

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Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Mark Twain

This last, greatest attempt by Twain to outdo Joanthan Swift is disproving the notion that people of this republic are inherently more virtuous than others.

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