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ITT: Great literature that's under 200 pages.

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>> No.575376

The Stranger.

>> No.575390

cosmicomics, the crying of lot 49, the third policeman.

>> No.575792

They're called novellas. Or short stories. Or novellettes (if you're gay).

>> No.575793

>>575792
they are called short books

>> No.575797

>>575792
protip: 50,000 words or more is a novel, or 170 minimum

fag

>> No.575799

>>575797
>170 minimum

I mean 170 pages

fuck you

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>>575799
>>575797

>> No.575816

The Bible.

>> No.575818

>>575810
Exactly what I was thinking.

>> No.575857
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Heart of Darkness
Siddartha
Animal Farm
The Dead (although techincally part of the larger compilation Dubliners, they were all originally published separately)
Things Fall Apart
+1 The Stranger
Notes from the Underground ( I didn't like it, but a lot of people I respect do)

Also, I didn't actually check that these are all actually under 200, but they are all pretty short.

>> No.575860

Cal by MacLaverty

>> No.575863

>>575816

Isn't the bible like 10 million nigger dicking pages long? Yeah no thanks Frank

>> No.575864

Animal farm
Ficciones

>> No.575869

B is for Beer - Tom Robbins
Tortilla Flat, Of Mice ad Men, The Pearl - Steinbeck
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Great Gatsby
Cider with Rosie
Candide
Walden

There are others.

>> No.575979

Fahrenheit 451

>> No.576136

Otra Vez

>> No.576149

Pedro Paramo
Envy
Heart of a Dog
Fatal Eggs
The Dying Animal
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Notes from Underground
A Hero of Our Time
Fathers and Sons
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Cossacks
Father Sergius

>> No.576163

The Turn of the Screw
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

>> No.576168

Sarrasine
To The Lighthouse
Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom
Vril: The Power Of The Coming Race

>> No.576171

On Chesil Beach

>> No.576319

Not a book, but Howl.

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>>576149
>Pedro Paramo
>Envy
>Heart of a Dog
>Fatal Eggs

Oh, my God... you have awesome taste. Can we be friends... or (in case you're a femanon) lovers? :3

>> No.576489

>>576478

What, you some kinda homophobe or something?

>> No.576498

Brave New World

>> No.576506

>>576489
Naw, mang.

>> No.576522

At Swim Two Birds

>> No.576524

>>576506

Why must you preemptively reject my love, then?

>> No.576535

Autofac

>> No.576544

Yesterday Was Monday
Timetipping

>> No.576555

>>576524
It's not you, brah. It's me. What we have can never go beyond the boundaries of mere platonic relations. Such is life, good sir.

>> No.576577

Also, to add to the list of books under 200 pages...

The Hour of the Star: Clarice Lispector
Patriotism: Yukio Mishima
The Death of Artemio Cruz: Carlos Fuentes
Closely Watched Trains: Bohumil Hrabal
Michael Kohlhaas: Heinrich von Kleist
The Lemoine Affair: Marcel Proust
Anything by Daniil Kharms

>> No.576606

old man and the sea

>> No.576610

Mrs. Dalloway

>> No.576612
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>> No.576618

The Dead
Of Mice and Men
Fahrenheit 451

>> No.576640

Siddartha

>> No.576953

The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

>> No.577531

Are all of Hesse's books so short?

>> No.577548

>>576577
The Death of Artemio Cruz under 200 pages? Haha oh wow

>> No.577565

The Stranger

>> No.577571

Transparent Things by Nabokov is a deliciously slim 104 pages. Also Weight by Jeanette Winterson is 151 pages long.