I love a novella. I didn’t look up page counts but here’s some I remember being shorter and worth reading
- Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dosktoevsky
- The Death of Ivan Illych by Lev Tolstoy
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
- The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
- The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
- The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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