Short Fiction for Busy People
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka
Superb collection by modern master explores the complexity, anxiety, and futility of modern life. Excellent new English translations of the title story — considered by …
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Awakening
by Kate Chopin
"She grew daring and reckless. Overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out. Where no woman had swum before."
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
A humane scientist attempts to explore the most loathsome forces of evil behind the doors of his London laboratory
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About Time
by Jack Finney
Presents twelve short fiction stories about time and time travel set in New York and San Francisco in the 1950s and 60s.
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Dubliners
by James Joyce
Fifteen short stories evoke the character, atmosphere, and people of the Irish city of Dublin at the turn of the century
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; …
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
This book is an autobiographical account by runaway slave Frederick Douglass that chronicles his experiences with his owners and overseers and discusses how slavery affected …