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Goodreads "World's Greatest Novellas"

This is a category of literature dear to my own heart and also perhaps to those constrained in reading time. Novellas are a great way to expand the breadth of your reading, so this challenge could prove a useful guide to that end.
According to Goodreads , "a novella is a fictional prose narrative, as a rule of thumb more than 20,000 but fewer than 50,000 words in length. These boundaries are approximate....."
Notes:
* Some of these books are collections of novellas with the book itself several hundred pages long.
* "Una Historia De Ayer" appears twice on the source list; it has been translated in 2021 as 'A Story of Yesterday'
* I have removed some books grossly exceeding the criteria above; also some duplicates.
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Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
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Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
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The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
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The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
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The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
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The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
7
A Christmas Carol (Penguin Classics)
A Christmas Carol (Penguin Classics)
8
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
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Una Historia De Ayer (Sergio Cobo)
Una Historia De Ayer (Sergio Cobo)
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A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
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Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
13
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
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Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
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Candide (Voltaire)
Candide (Voltaire)
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The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
17
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy)
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy)
18
The Time Machine (H. G. Wells)
The Time Machine (H. G. Wells)
19
Bartleby, the Scrivener (Herman Melville)
Bartleby, the Scrivener (Herman Melville)
20
The Pearl (John Steinbeck)
The Pearl (John Steinbeck)
21
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
22
Notes From Underground, White Nights, the Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Notes From Underground, White Nights, the Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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Night (Elie Wiesel)
Night (Elie Wiesel)
24
The Dead (James Joyce)
The Dead (James Joyce)
25
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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Chronicle of Death Foretold (Gabriel García Márquez)
Chronicle of Death Foretold (Gabriel García Márquez)
27
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
28
Chess Story (Stefan Zweig)
Chess Story (Stefan Zweig)
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)
30
The Overcoat (Nikolai Gogol)
The Overcoat (Nikolai Gogol)
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In the Penal Colony (Franz Kafka)
In the Penal Colony (Franz Kafka)
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Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
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The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
34
Daisy Miller (Henry James)
Daisy Miller (Henry James)
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach/USA)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach/USA)
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The Fall (Albert Camus)
The Fall (Albert Camus)
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Anthem (Ayn Rand)
Anthem (Ayn Rand)
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction (J.D. Salinger)
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction (J.D. Salinger)
39
The Heart of a Dog (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Heart of a Dog (Mikhail Bulgakov)
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Carson McCullers)
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Carson McCullers)
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