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the best short classics under 250 pages

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I love to read classics. As a teenager, I loved reading classics, but they were too long for me at the time and I had to keep up in school. This is my list of the best classics with few pages that you can read in between classes.
 
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The Great Gatsby: The Only Authorized Edition
 
Animal Farm by George Orwell, Paperback
 
The Pearl by John Steinbeck, Paperback
 
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Paperback
 
A Christmas Carol (Esprios Classics) - Barnes & Noble
 
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote, ...
 
Night by Elie Wiesel, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
 
Matilda by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake, Paperback
 
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
 
Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket, Hardcover
 
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
 
Sula by Toni Morrison, Paperback
 
Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe, Paperback
 
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting, Paperback
 
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man: A novel
 
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys - Barnes & Noble
 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: (Penguin Classics ...
 
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Paperback
 
Speedboat by Renata Adler, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
 
The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Paperback
 
The Black Cat - Edgar Allan Poe - Barnes & Noble
 
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, Paperback
 
OF MICE AND MEN by JOHN STEINBECK, Paperback
 
The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure ...
 
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Special Edition)
 
Stranger by Albert Camus, Paperback
 
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, Paperback
 
The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino, Paperback
 
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories ...
 
In Watermelon Sugar - by Richard Brautigan
 
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, Paperback
 
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
 
A Single Man: A Novel by Christopher Isherwood, Paperback
 
Notes from Underground (Warbler Classics Annotated ...
 
Ice (50th Anniversary Edition) by Anna Kavan, Paperback
 
Cane by Jean Toomer, Paperback
 
The Drowned World - JG Ballard
 
Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Paperback
 
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, Paperback
 
O Pioneers! (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
 
Bonjour Tristesse: A Novel by Francoise Sagan, Paperback
 
The Trial by Franz Kafka, Paperback
 
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, Paperback
 
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe, Paperback
 
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, Paperback
 
Silas Marner by George Eliot, Paperback
 
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark, Paperback
 
Fat City by Leonard Gardner, Paperback
 
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter, Paperback
 
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, Paperback
 
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, Paperback
 
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
 
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Paperback
 
Ubik: A Novel by Philip K. Dick, Paperback
 
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov, Paperback