Short Novels of the Masters

Ten classic short novels appear in this collection by noted editor Neider. The contents include: <I>Benito Cereno</I> by Herman Melville <I>Notes from Underground</I> by F. M. Dostoyevsky <I>A Simple Heart</I> by Gustave Flaubert <I>The Death of Ivan Ilych</I> by L. N. Tolstoy <I>The Aspern Papers</I> by Henry James <I>Ward No. 6</I> by A. P. Chekhov <I>Death in Venice</I> by Thomas Mann <I>The Dead</I> by James Joyce (recently made into a musical) <I>The Metamorphosis</I> by Franz Kafka and <I>The Fox</I> by D. H. Lawrence. In the introduction Neider discusses the themes that arise in several of the novels grouping them by more than just their greatness.