Read six books today from our collection of the shortest novels ever written. (We've illustrated them in your honor.)


Snakes in Ireland
by Margaret Deland

There are no snakes in Ireland.





The Dinosaur
by Augusto Monterroso

When he awoke, the dinosaur was still there.





Englewood Entropy
by Anonymous

Dr. Blanton Tufford, a Stanford University physics professor who studied the structure of the universe, was killed on Sunday when a car crashed into the Englewood, N.J., coffee shop where he was sitting.





Untitled
attributed to Ernest Hemingway

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.





Untitled
by Alfred Charles Richard

Coughfing [sic], coffin!





Knock
by Fredric Brown

The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.




Also:

An unusual love story emerges from two entries in Kent County, Maryland Marriage License records. On April 22, 1797, both Jogn Lewin and Robert Curry took out licenses to marry Jane Bird. A note by the clerk on the page on which the records were made, just under Curry's name, says, "Curry was successful." Here is a whole two-volume romance condensed in two names and dates, and a sentence of three words. Probably the shortest novel ever written. (source: Pioneer Pathfinder, 1985)


See also: http://www.hillarydepiano.com/2006/11/01/the-shortest-novels-ever-written/