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Tag Archives: George Orwell’s Animal Farm

Is the novella making a comeback?

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When it comes to books I keep reading that bigger is better and shorter, as in a novella, is inferior and unpopular: “For me the word denotes a lesser genre. If you pitch a book to a bookseller as a … Continue reading →

Posted in For everyone | Tagged A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Books editor, Claire Armistead, Curtis Brown Literary Agency, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the See, George Orwell's Animal Farm, H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Joyce Carol Oates's Black Water, Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending, Karolina Sutton, novella, Of Mice and Men by John Steinebeck, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived In The Castle, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night by Mark Haddon, The Guardian | 20 Comments
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