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04534aam a2200445Ii 4500 001 0AF0F16A8C0011EDA40A627456ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230104011844 008 221114s2022 nyua b 001 0 eng d 010 $a bl2022035746 020 $a 198218003X 020 $a 9781982180034 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1350745768 040 $a NjBwBT $b eng $c OQX $e rda $d OQX $d OCO $d CGB $d OJ4 $d ILC $d VP@ $d SILO 050 14 $a Z1035.9 $b .D38 2022 082 04 $a 011/.73 $2 23/eng/20221103 100 1 $a Davis, Kenneth C., $e author. 245 10 $a Great short books : $b a year of reading--briefly / $c Kenneth C. Davis. 250 $a First Scribner hardcover edition. 260 $a New York : $b Scribner, $c 2022. 300 $a xxiv, 416 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-416) and indexes. 505 0 $a Introduction : Notes of a common reader -- Agostino / Alberto Moravia -- Animal farm : a fairy story / George Orwell -- Another Brooklyn / Jacqueline Woodson -- The awakening / Kate Chopin -- The ballad of the sad cafeÌ / Carson McCullers -- Big boy leaves home / Richard Wright -- Bonjour tristesse / Françoise Sagan -- Candide, or optimism / Voltaire -- Charlotte's web / E. B. White -- A clockwork orange / Anthony Burgess -- The country girls / Edna O'Brien -- Death in Venice / Thomas Mann -- Dept. of speculation / Jenny Offill -- The dry heart / Natalia Ginzburg -- Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton -- Evil under the sun / Agatha Christie -- The fifth child / Doris Lessing -- The ghost writer / Philip Roth -- The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The hour of the star / Clarice Lispector -- The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- If Beale Street could talk / James Baldwin -- If this is a man [survival in Auschwitz] / Primo Levi -- July's people / Nadine Gordimer -- The lathe of heaven / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Lord of the flies / William Golding -- The lost daughter / Elena Ferrante -- The lover / Marguerite Duras -- Lucy / Jamaica Kincaid -- Maus I : a survivor's tale : my father bleeds history / Art Spiegelman -- Middle passage / Charles Johnson -- Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf -- The hours / Michael Cunningham -- The nickel boys / Colson Whitehead -- No one writes to the colonel / Gabriel GarciÌa Marquez -- The old man and the sea / Ernest Hemingway -- On Chesil Beach / Ian McEwan -- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Oranges are not the only fruit / Jeanette Winterson -- Pale horse, pale rider / Katherine Anne Porter -- A pale view of hills / Kazuo Ishiguro -- Passing / Nella Larsen -- The perfect nanny / LeiÌla Slimani -- A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce -- The postman always rings twice / James M. Cain -- The prime of Miss Jean Brodie / Muriel Spark -- The red badge of courage / Stephen Crane -- Rita Hayworth and Shawshank redemption / Stephen King -- The sailor who fell from grace with the sea / Yukio Mishima -- The stranger / Albert Camus -- Sula / Toni Morrison -- Surfacing / Margaret Atwood -- Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe -- Tokyo Ueno station / Yu Miri -- Waiting for the barbarians / J. M. Coetzee -- We have always lived in the castle / Shirley Jackson -- Wilde Sargasso sea / Jean Rhys -- Afterword : What's not here -- My favorite fifteen great short books. 520 $a Davis provides a guide to some of the best short novels of all time. The works span from the eighteenth century to the present day, covering multiple genres, cultures, and countries, and are arranged alphabetically by title. Each short (4-to-6 pages) profile includes the first lines of the work, a brief plot summery, information about the author, and Davis's opinion on why you should read the book-- and what you should read next. -- adapted from perusal of book 650 0 $a Best books. 650 0 $a Books and reading. 941 $a 12 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20231205010226.0 952 $l CPPC926 $d 20231111013030.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231103012300.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031354.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011454.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20230602010609.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230502011930.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230207010854.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230204010848.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20230201023445.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20230111010509.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230104013847.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0AF0F16A8C0011EDA40A627456ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search