What are some short novels written by high brow authors? I want

>>8123455
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading/Literature_by_type
Look in the novellas section.

>>8123455
Dubliners
Ficciones
Billy Bud
Notes from the Underground
Mrs. Dalloway
The Death if Ivan Ilyich
Siddhartha

>>8123455

Tolstoy wrote a bunch of very straightforward short stories. Quite a few are allegorical and heavily christian.

Sevastopol Sketches is a fine starting point, and not as hamfistedly christian as much of his other short work. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is heavier, but still short and accessible.

>>8123455

The Petersburg Tales by Gogol. It's a short story collection. The Overcoat, The Portrait and The Nose are some of the better stories. You should be able to readily find them online.

>>8123477
Shit taste
>>8123504
Good taste

Well OP first, its worth mentioning that not all great works of literature are so long. Some of the books that /lit/ almost always praises are only 100 or so pages.

Some good novellas I'd recommend
>Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck, an American novella discussing friendship and isolation and a shitty reality. Read Grapes of Wrath or East of Eden if you enjoy it
>Heart of Darkness - Conrad, about a man traveling through the Congo in search of an infamous Mr. Kurtz, discusses fate, fear, savagery of blacks and whites
>Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky, narrative of man who more or less discusses his own patheticness. One of my favorites, if you like it Dostoevsky has a lot of other short stories
>The Stranger - Camus. More or less the best starting point for Camus and arguably French existentialism. About absurdity of life. If you like it read Camus' The Plague.
>Siddartha - Hesse. A book about a indian man delving into various mystic traditions. Wonderfully written and says a lot in few pages.
>Animal Farm - Orwell. About the USSR and critical of Stalin told through a bunch of farm animals.

>>8123455
Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>>8123671
he asked for highbrow stuff

not some new age pseudo-philosophical fiction

>>8123689
You can't deny that those are good starting points, I'm assuming that OP hasn't read much