Sample Readings: Novellas

(Listed chronologically)

Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Novella (1786)

Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O (1808)

Heinrich von Kleist, Michael Kohlhaas (1810)

Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)

Herman Melville, Benito Cereno (1855)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground (1864)

Herman Melville, Billy Budd (1892)

H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)

Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898)

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899)

Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice (1912)

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (1915)

Ayn Rand, Anthem (1938)

Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958)

Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982)

Graham Greene, The Tenth Man (1985)

Steve Martin, Shopgirl (2000)