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The best books under 100 pages
What are they? A loyal MR reader wants to know. Comments, of course, are open.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on April 3, 2007 at 12:53 PM in Books | Permalink
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any Lovecraft novella
Posted by: Patrick Rice at Apr 3, 2007 12:57:54 PM
Candide
Posted by: mph at Apr 3, 2007 1:00:58 PM
Candide's under 100? Borges or Cortazar short stories
Posted by: Brad at Apr 3, 2007 1:03:06 PM
Animal Farm
Posted by: JDA at Apr 3, 2007 1:03:34 PM
Heart of Darkness
Posted by: tucker at Apr 3, 2007 1:04:35 PM
Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician
Posted by: Lee A. Arnold at Apr 3, 2007 1:09:07 PM
Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Siddharta; Heart of Darkness
non-fiction: Herman's Vulgar Latin (trans. R. Wright) (for real)
Posted by: Mihailoff at Apr 3, 2007 1:09:30 PM
Anthem, Ayn Rand
Posted by: Bob McWhirter at Apr 3, 2007 1:11:54 PM
death of ivan illich
Posted by: Andrew at Apr 3, 2007 1:16:07 PM
Transparent Things, Nabokov
Posted by: Stephen at Apr 3, 2007 1:19:02 PM
War and Peace. In the new Microscopic Print edition.
Posted by: Peter at Apr 3, 2007 1:23:50 PM
Things Fall Apart, Achebe
Posted by: Cyrus at Apr 3, 2007 1:25:09 PM
Grounding on the Metaphysics of Morals -Kant
Second Treatise on Government -Locke (though you should read the first half of Hobbes's Leviathan first)
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Hume (slightly over the limit)
Book of Job
Posted by: Benquo at Apr 3, 2007 1:26:11 PM
My favorites include:
Carl Sandburg's HONEY & SALT, Donald Hall's KICKING THE LEAVES. Also: THE DHAMMAPADA and, just a bit beyond 100 pages, Martin Buber's I AND THOU
Posted by: DPrychitko at Apr 3, 2007 1:27:07 PM
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck, hands down.
Posted by: HGChr at Apr 3, 2007 1:31:23 PM
My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
Posted by: Scoop at Apr 3, 2007 1:31:48 PM
The Old Man and the Sea
Posted by: false_cause at Apr 3, 2007 1:35:45 PM
Slightly over 100 pages but...Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
Posted by: Niall at Apr 3, 2007 1:36:05 PM
Posted by: j.a.s.o.n at Apr 3, 2007 1:42:19 PM
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
or
The Blue Lotus by Hergé
Posted by: authe at Apr 3, 2007 1:44:36 PM
Flatland, by Abbott.
Posted by: KipEsquire at Apr 3, 2007 1:44:44 PM
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
Jesus' Son, Dennis Johnson
Closely Watched Trains, Bohumil Hrabal
Posted by: r at Apr 3, 2007 1:46:11 PM
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
Posted by: j.a.s.o.n at Apr 3, 2007 1:46:44 PM
"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" (Solzhenitsyn) is, I think, under 100 pages in some editions.
Posted by: Paul or the Giant Rabbit at Apr 3, 2007 1:48:39 PM
Flatland by Abbot
Silk, by Alessandro Baricco,
The Little Prince
Siddharta
Posted by: Cyrano at Apr 3, 2007 1:50:24 PM
