Great Classic Books Under 200 Pages

Great classic Books under 200 pages

1. The turn of the screw by Henry James (108 pages)

One of the must read gothic horror tales: The story begins when a governess arrives at an English country estate to look two young children, Miles and Flora. At first, everything appears normal then one night a ghost appears before the governess.

2. Letters to a young poet by Rilke (80 pages)

A must read for everyone who loves poetry and writing: In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke, replied to the novice in this series of letters

3. The Aleph and other stories by Borges (200 pages)

A great collectio of magical storys full of phlosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises: "The Aleph is a point in space that contains all other points. Anyone who gazes into it can see everything in the universe from every angle simultaneously, without distortion, overlapping, or confusion."

4. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (180 pages)

Hunger has been hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century and an outstanding example of psychology-driven literature. Set in late 19th-century Kristiania, the novel recounts the adventures of a starving young man whose sense of reality is slowly fading away.

5. The Sandman by E.T.A Hoffmann (40 pages)

A classic short story for every gothic horror lover. Read it and be prepared to get your mind blown.

6. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (120 pages)

Driven to mental anguish as the result of total isolation by the Nazis, Dr B, a securities expert hiding valuable assets of the nobility from the new regime, maintains his sanity only through the theft of a book of past masters' chess games which he plays endlessly, voraciously learning each one until they overwhelm his imagination to such an extent that he becomes consumed by chess. Chess Story is Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942.

7. Bartleby, the scrivener by Herman Melville (70 pages)

Another great short story that will really make you think about capitalism and a man's free will: Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, it is, perhaps, Herman Melville's most prescient story: what if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce and overworking finally just said, "I would prefer not to"?

8. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (160 pages)

This haunting and controversial novel is Baldwin's most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses: After proposing to a young woman, he falls into an affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two.

9. The Stranger by Albert Camus (123 pages)

Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."

10. We have always lived in the castle by Shirley Jackson (160 pages)

Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat just wants to preserve their delicate way of life. But ever since Constance was acquitted of murdering the rest of the family, the world isn't leaving the Blackwoods alone. 'Her greatest book ... ... the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go' - Donna Tartt

Actors and their favourite Books II

These answers are taken from BBC's Desert Island Discs

George Clooney - War and Peace by Tolstoy

Anthony Hopkins - The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald

Martin Freeman - Animal Farm by Orwell

Lin Manuel Miranda - Moby Dick by Melville

Christopher Lee - The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White

Hugh Grant - King Ottokar's Sceptre by Herge

Nicole Kidman - Poems of Emily Dickinson

Chris Evans - A Christmas Carol by Dickens

Emma Thompson - Homer's Odyssey

Mark Gatiss - The complete Sherlock Holmes

Some of my favorite movies/series Part 4:

(dark academia, light academia & cottage core themed/coded):

1. Another Country (1984; directed by Marek Kanievska; 87 mins)

2. Departure (2015; directed by Andrew Steggall; 109 mins)

3. Carol (2015; directed by Todd Haynes; 118 mins)

4. Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (2019; directed by Céline Sciamma; 120 mins)

5. Elisa & Marcela (2019; directed by Isabel Coixet; 118 mins)

6. Mary Shelley (2017; directed by Haifaa al-Mansour; 120 mins)

7. Over The Garden Wall (2014; directed by Nate Cash; 109 mins)

8. The Dreamers (2003; directed by Bernardo Bertolucci; 112 mins)

9. Total Eclipse (1995; directed by Agnieszka Holland; 111 mins)

10. Swing Kids (1993; directed by Thomas Carter; 112 mins)

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Unknown Book Recommendation:

The Last March by Robert Falcon Scott - a horrifying true story

"Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale."

This is a book that every history buff and Fan of "the Terror" should read. Robert Falcon Scott was one of the very first people that set foot on the South Pole. His personal diary tells the horrifying and fascinating Story of his last expedition: it is a moving tale of a man, who kept his will to survive until his very last breath. Scott was found dead over 100 years ago with this diary beside him, frozen in the antarctic ice.

obsessed w the man who came into the theatre i work at (modern productions NOT shakespeare plays) who realised he lost his ticket and turned to his wife and asked “dost thou know whither we sit”