Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time. There are currently 44 novellas available—you can buy the whole set for just $320.
Novellas included:
The Duel by Alexander Kuprin
A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Dialogue of the Dogs by Miguel de Cervantes
My Life by Anton Chekhov
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
Mathilda by Mary Shelley
The Beach of Falesá by Robert Louis Stevenson
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain
Carmen by Prosper Mérimée
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
The Poor Clare by Elizabeth Gaskell
May Day by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fanfarlo by Charles Baudelaire
The Alienist by Machado de Assis
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Duel by Giacomo Casanova
The Duel by Heinrich von Kleist
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
Tales of Belkin by Alexander Pushkin
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson
Stempenyu: a Jewish Romance by Sholem Aleichem
The Horla by Guy de Maupassant
The Devil by Leo Tolstoy
First Love by Ivan Turgenev
The Enchanted Wanderer by Nikolai Leskov
Adolphe by Benjamin Constant
The Coxon by Henry James
A Sleep and a Forgetting by William Dean Howells
Michael Koolhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevesky
The Lesson of the Master by Henry James
Alexander’s Bridge by Willa Cather
The Distracted Preacher by Thomas Hardy
The Dead by James Joyce
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville