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. Twenty-seven novellas are currently available—and can be yours for only $209.

Novellas included:

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Lady Susan by Jane Austen

The Duel by Alexander Kuprin

A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert

Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

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 Poor Clare by Elizabeth Gaskell

Fanfarlo by Charles Baudelaire

The Duel by Giacomo Casanova

The Duel by Heinrich von Kleist

The Horla by Guy de Maupassant

First Love by Ivan Turgenev

Adolphe by Benjamin Constant

The Abbess of Castro by Stendhal

The Lesson of the Master by Henry James

Alexander’s Bridge by Willa Cather

The Distracted Preacher by Thomas Hardy

Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville

At the Bay by Katherine Mansfield

Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville

A Sleep and a Forgetting by William Dean Howells