The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl (8 page)

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Once again he wrapped up the old and the new pages in the sheet on which was written the question
he could not answer. Then he wrote wearily under it several times the word: Nothing.

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He was found dead with the pen, over which had passed his last breath, in his mouth.

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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

TITLES IN THE COMPANION SERIES
THE CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE NOVELLA

THE PATHSEEKER
/ IMRE KERTÉSZ
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR
/ GILBERT ADAIR
THE NORTH OF GOD
/ STEVE STERN
CUSTOMER SERVICE
/ BENOÎT DUTEURTRE
BONSAI
/ ALEJANDRO ZAMBRA
ILLUSION OF RETURN
/ SAMIR EL-YOUSSEF
CLOSE TO JEDENEW
/ KEVIN VENNEMAN
A HAPPY MAN
/ HANSJÖRG SCHERTENLEIB
SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL
/ TAO LIN
LUCINELLA
/ LORE SEGAL
SANDOKAN
/ NANNI BALESTRINI
THE UNION JACK
/ IMRE KERTÉSZ

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