Word: novelet
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...writer who deals in facts, Author Feuchtwanger polishes his wares until they seem as valuable and glittering as new-minted coin. Title-story in this book is a compressed novelet (it covers 35 years in 29 pages) of the love affair between Warren Hastings, ruler of India, and a little German hausfrau. Others: the fatally successful altitude flight of a French airman; a bullfight seen through a German painter's eyes; an aging poet catches his death of cold in trying to show off before a hen-brained girl...
...NAKED TRUTH AND ELEVEN OTHER STORIES?Luigi Pirandello?Button ($3). Collection of short and long tales by the Italian virtuoso of the theatre and the continental novelet, boxed and attractively bound...
This posthumous story by the late Henry Sydnor Harrison is more of a sermon than a novelet, may possibly help lift you to a state of grace if you are still bemoaning stockmarket losses. Author Harrison wrote so cheerfully you may like it anyway...
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