having a person killed in your family for reasons of this sort a relative directly or indirectly through ties of blood or marriage is something that if you look around my home town has happened to some extent to everyone in the town you always see everywhere women dressed in black in my home town women dressed in black are a perennial presence for instance in the last several years I have never seen my mother dressed in anything but black first of all because my uncle Francesco was killed because he had accidentally been caught in a clan shootout and so my mother started dressing in black then a little later her mother died and so she continued to wear black and now they kill the cousin of her daughter’s husband and so she wears more black and when my mother finally stops wearing black I won’t recognize her because by now I’m used to her all in black so later that same day I took the train back north I threw away my clothes that still reeked of that horrible stench of frozen blood someone took me to the station and as I waited for the train I repeated to myself over and over I’m never coming back to my home town

OTHER TITLES IN THE ART OF THE NOVELLA SERIES

BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER

HERMAN MELVILLE

THE LESSON OF THE MASTER

HENRY JAMES

MY LIFE

ANTON CHEKHOV

THE DEVIL

LEO TOLSTOY

THE TOUCHSTONE

EDITH WHARTON

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

THE DEAD

JAMES JOYCE

FIRST LOVE

IVAN TURGENEV

A SIMPLE HEART

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

RUDYARD KIPLING

MICHAEL KOHLHAAS

HEINRICH VON KLEIST

THE BEACH OF FALESÁ

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

THE HORLA

GUY DE MAUPASSANT

THE ETERNAL HUSBAND

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG

MARK TWAIN

THE LIFTED VEIL

GEORGE ELIOT

THE GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN EYES

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

A SLEEP AND A FORGETTING

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

BENITO CERENO

HERMAN MELVILLE

MATHILDA

MARY SHELLEY

STEMPENYU: A JEWISH ROMANCE

SHOLEM ALEICHEM

FREYA OF THE SEVEN ISLES

JOSEPH CONRAD

HOW THE TWO IVANS QUARRELLED

NIKOLAI GOGOL

MAY DAY

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

RASSELAS, PRINCE ABYSSINIA

SAMUEL JOHNSON

THE DIALOGUE OF THE DOGS

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

THE LEMOINE AFFAIR

MARCEL PROUST

THE COXON FUND

HENRY JAMES

THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH

LEO TOLSTOY

TALES OF BELKIN

ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

THE AWAKENING

KATE CHOPIN

ADOLPHE

BENJAMIN CONSTANT

THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS

SARAH ORNE JEWETT

PARNASSUS ON WHEELS

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

THE NICE OLD MAN AND THE PRETTY GIRL

ITALO SVEVO

LADY SUSAN

JANE AUSTEN

JACOB’S ROOM

VIRGINIA WOOLF

THE DUEL

GIACOMO CASANOVA

THE DUEL

ANTON CHEKHOV

THE DUEL

JOSEPH CONRAD

THE DUEL

HEINRICH VON KLEIST

THE DUEL

ALEXANDER KUPRIN

THE ALIENIST

MACHADO DE ASSIS

ALEXANDER’S BRIDGE

WILLA CATHER

FANFARLO

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

THE DISTRACTED PREACHER

THOMAS HARDY

THE ENCHANTED WANDERER

NIKOLAI LESKOV

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THE CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE NOVELLA SERIES

THE PATHSEEKER / IMRE KERTÉSZ

THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR / GILBERT ADAIR

THE NORTH OF GOD / STEVE STERN