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How to be Well-read in No Time: 100 Short Novels

How to be Well-read in No Time: 100 Short Novels
How to be well-read in no time: 40 short novels is a list of books that provides a varied glimpse of the written style of many of the great authors. A concise selection, the titles can be worked through over a very short period, or, alternatively, they can be sandwiched between larger classics in an even more ambitious reading program. For further reading suggestions see our Top 100 Novels of All Time. 1. Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut | Used Price: 90% Off Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. 2. By Franz Kafka | Used Price: 60% Off The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. 3. By George Orwell 4. By John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men is a novel written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. 5. By Ernest Hemingway | Used Price: 50% Off 6.

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